893.51/6378: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China ( Peck ) to the Secretary of State
Nanking
, May 19,
1937—3 p.m.
[Received May 19—8:20 a.m.]
[Received May 19—8:20 a.m.]
211. Our 209, May 18, 10 a.m. An officer of the Embassy has been informed by the French Ambassador that an agreement for a loan of Chinese dollars 24,500,000 for the construction of the Chengtu-Chungking Railway was recently signed in Paris between the Banque Franco-Chinoise and Chinese representatives acting for the Ministry of Railways and the China Development Finance Corporation.
Sent to the Department; by mail to Peiping, Shanghai, Tokyo.
Peck