893.516/599: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss)

189. Your 367, May 9, 6 p.m. Inasmuch as customs revenues in north China have been since March 1938 payable in so-called Federal Reserve Bank notes and those notes have usually been at a discount in relation to Chinese national currency, the Department desires that you endeavor to verify the information given you by the Customs to the effect that the Customs revenues held in Tientsin and other north China ports are in the form of deposits payable in Chinese national currency.

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