893.6363 Manchuria/65: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

485. Legation’s 484, October 24, 1 p.m. Chase reports that the Monopoly Bureau has requested Chinese agents of the Standard-Vacuum Company to send delegates to a meeting to be held at Hsinking on the 26th for the purpose of selecting distributors of monopoly kerosene; that company have suggested to agents that the Bureau be informed that the matter should be taken up directly with the company.

Gauss