893.00/12590: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 23—11:40 a.m.]
927. The Consul at Foochow reports December 22, 11 a.m., that he has received an envelope which had been sent through the regular [Page 552] mail and censored and chopped by the so-called “6th sub-district Soviet Government of Lienkang district”, Lienkang being north of the Min River entrance. He further stated that according to the publicity organ of the new regime the abolition of extraterritoriality and of the Mixed Court at Kulangsu has been decided on; that a Japanese-owned newspaper claims that the new regime has decided to establish an opium monopoly; and that there are press reports to the effect that all private schools will be instructed to register.