102.1/11–1445: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Robertson)
1842. From Treasury for Adler.
1. For your information our last gold shipment under terms of our commitment to China last May69 left New York on September 12. Acting under instructions from Hsi Te-mou,70 shipments have not gone forward since that date. Hsi states that Chinese Government is in “no hurry” to ship more gold to Shanghai.
2. Up to and including September 12 we delivered a total of nearly $121 million to U. S. ports for delivery to Chungking and Shanghai, of which $95 million went by water and $26 million went by air. Of this total of $121 million Ave shipped $25 million by steamer to Shanghai. In addition to the shipment of gold under terms of our commitment to China, we have sent since the date of our commitment one shipment of “tin-gold”71 amounting to US$6 million, which left New York on September 19.
3. We have aided the Chinese in obtaining transportation for banknotes to China. Details regarding the Army steamer shipments we have arranged for the Chinese are as follows:
| Weight of Notes (tons) | Destination | Date left U. S. port |
| 15 | Shanghai | Sept. 20 |
| 41 | Calcutta | Oct. 3 |
| 74 | Shanghai | Oct. 19 |
We have not arranged for any shipments since October 19 and Hsi has informed us that he may not ask us to arrange for further Army shipments if commercial transport facilities can handle all the banknote tonnage he wishes to ship to China.
- See letter of May 16 from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, p. 1089.↩
- Representative in the United States of the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of China.↩
- This reference is to a special shipment of gold to encourage production of tin in China.↩