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Memorandum by the Minister in China (Johnson) of a Conversation With the Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs (Hsu Mo)66
I spoke to Mr. Hsu Mo about the large number of Chinese who had been repatriated by the United States at an expense to the United States of some $500,000. I stated that my Government had asked me to express the hope that the Chinese Government would take over the responsibility of repatriating these unfortunate people.
Mr. Hsu Mo informed me that they had recently instructed the Legation at Washington to make a payment against the sums which had been paid out by the United States Government, and he said that they had also issued instructions to their Legation in Mexico City to stop the passage over the American frontier of further Chinese refugees.
He said that the Chinese Government was of course extremely grateful to the United States Government for what it had done for its nationals.
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Minister in his despatch No. 2449, January 5, 1934; received January 29.↩