693.002/793: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 7—3:07 p.m.]
1465. The British Ambassador informs me that as it is clear that unless the pressure for the employment of Japanese in the [Page 750] Chinese Maritime Customs ceases or the recruiting of foreigners is resumed on an international basis the balance of the service will be seriously affected, he has now been instructed to invite the Chinese Government to agree in principle to resumption of the recruiting of the foreign staff for the customs on a broad basis. In this connection see my despatch No. 1809 of November 9th as well as my despatch No. 1813 November 15th24 which should reach the Department in the near future.
Repeated to Chungking and Peiping.
- Neither printed.↩