793.003/980: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
1009. The Embassy at London has been informed by the British Foreign Office that the text of the British draft treaty on extraterritoriality has been sent to the British Ambassador at Chungking with instructions to present it at the earliest possible moment to the Chinese Government. We are asking the Embassy at London to request that the Foreign Office instruct the British Ambassador to furnish you a copy of the text. We are also asking the Chinese Embassy here to telegraph a request to the Chinese Foreign Office that it furnish you promptly a copy of the text of the draft treaty which this Government has presented to the Chinese for the consideration of the Chinese Government.
For your information, the Brazilian Government has informed this Government that it desires to take action in regard to relinquishment of extraterritorial rights similar to ours. The Norwegian Government states that it has informed the Chinese Government that Norway intends to negotiate a treaty on the subject along the same lines as any treaty that might be negotiated between this country and China. The Netherland Government states that it has instructed its Minister in Chungking to inform the Chinese Government that it also desires to proceed with negotiations with the Chinese presumably along the same lines as this Government, except that the Netherlands have a special problem in reference to matters relating to the status of Chinese in the Netherlands East Indies.