Office of the Historian

893.6581/6: Telegram

The Counselor of Legation in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State

Nanking, January 28, 1935—10 a.m.
[Received January 28—9:20 a.m.]

17. My 7, January 22, 1 p.m. to the Department. I am now informed by a colleague stationed in Nanking that he has learned from Chinese official sources that the Chinese Government has abandoned, at least for the time being, both the idea of a sugar monopoly and also its intention to double the import duty on leaf tobacco (see Legation’s January 8, 5 p.m. [9 a.m.?]).54 My colleague inquired whether the American Legation was concerned over the rumored intention to institute a match monopoly and I replied that I thought an interested American company in Shanghai intended to present this matter for the Legation’s consideration.

Peck
  1. See telegram No. 10, January 9, 1935, noon, from the Chargé in China, Foreign Relations, 1934, vol. iii, p. 572.↩