893.6581/6: Telegram
The Counselor of Legation in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[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.
- See telegram No. 10, January 9, 1935, noon, from the Chargé in China, Foreign Relations, 1934, vol. iii, p. 572.↩