Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1934, The Far East, Volume III

893.114 Narcotics/827: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)

Washington, September 4, 1934—6 p.m.

279. Your despatch No. 2873, July 28.²⁵ When opportunity presents the Minister or the Counselor at Nanking should intimate orally and informally to the appropriate authorities in Nanking the concern of the American Government over the apparent increase in smuggling of prepared opium from China to the United States and over the large quantities of clandestinely manufactured derivatives of opium known to be available in China for smuggling to the United States. It is suggested that this might be done when handing over the American annual narcotic report for 1933²⁶ sent to the Legation with the Department’s circular instruction of August 15, 1934,²⁷ which mentions the American Government’s apprehensions on pages 5, 6, 7, and 35. Please report when this action has been taken.

Moore

25. Not printed.
26. U. S. Treasury Department, Bureau of Narcotics, Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs for the Year Ended December 31, 1933: Report by the Government of the United States of America (Government Printing Office, Washington, 1934).
27. Not printed.