893.74/1010: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the First Secretary of Embassy in China (Salisbury), at Peiping
172. Tsingtao’s June 24, noon. In its instruction number 1426 of August 8, 1934, to Peiping,2 the Department concurred in the Embassy’s position that objection should not be raised to the voluntary registration of American-owned receiving sets in accordance with the regulations of the Chinese Government. In its instruction number 273 of October 13, 1936, to Peiping,3 the Department took the position that it would be prepared to give sympathetic consideration to any regulations which the Chinese Government might draw up designed to cover the operation of amateur radio stations in China, provided the regulations were made applicable to nationals of all countries, Chinese and foreign, resident in China.
It is suggested that you bring the foregoing instructions to the attention of the Consul at Tsingtao as background, and instruct him that quite aside from considerations of the status of the régime at Tsingtao, American owners of short-wave radio sets are under no obligation to register with and apply for permits from local authorities and that he may so inform Americans and advise them to refer authorities of the Peace Maintenance Committee to the Consulate. The Consul should endeavor, through appropriate representations, to render assistance to Americans should the local authorities interfere with the use by them of short-wave sets.
- Foreign Relations, 1934, vol. iii, p. 628.↩
- Not printed.↩