893.74/1010: Telegram
The Consul at Tsingtao (Gourley) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:35 p.m.]
Tsingtao Peace Maintenance Committee has issued new private radio receiving set regulations requiring owner of receiving sets to register and obtain permits from police. The only sets now permitted are long wave sets within the bands from 550 kilocycles or 545 meters to 1500 kilocycles or 200 meters. American owners of combined long and short wave sets object to registering under new regulations for fear they will no longer be allowed to use sets now in their possession and that such sets will become valueless even if no attempt is made to confiscate them. The regulations do not name clearly any penalty for noncompliance. Tsingtao American radio owners desire to know viewpoints of United States Government.
One American firm has already been refused permission to import a radio not meeting new wave length requirements. Japanese naval authorities are said to object to imports of such radios.
Sent to Hankow and Peiping.