Office of the Historian

661.9331/23: Telegram

The Second Secretary of Legation in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, May 4, 1935—3 p.m.
[Received May 4—11:41 a.m.]

95. Nanking office understands that Soviet Ambassador recently returned to China from Moscow will next week begin discussions with [Page 155] Chinese Foreign Office looking to new commercial and possibly a nonaggression treaty with China.

Atcheson