Office of the Historian

393.1163 Property/116

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

No. 3614
Peiping, June 12, 1935.
[Received July 13.]

Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Legation’s despatch No. 3294 of January 21, 1935,47 concerning the reregistration of land titles at Tsinan, and to enclose for the Department’s records a copy of despatch No. 146 of June 4, 1935,47 from Consul Stevens, containing a report of subsequent developments in the matter.

Although it will be noted that the Land Bureau at Tsinan continues to request that the Seventh Day Adventist Mission be instructed to present its title deed to land in the Commercial Port Area for examination, Consul Stevens states in his latest despatch that the Mayor of Tsinan has orally informed him of his decision to drop the matter for the time being.

In order to complete the record there is also enclosed a copy of the Legation’s instruction of today’s date to the Consul at Tsinan.48

Respectfully yours,

Nelson Trusler Johnson
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  3. The Minister stated therein that he was gratified to learn that the Mayor of Tsinan had decided to drop the matter for the time being.↩