Office of the Historian

125.7141/11–3049: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Peiping (Clubb)49

Washington, December 8, 1949—6 p. m.

887. Urtel 2155 Nov 30. Because of deadline suggest you inform local Commie auths Peiping properties acquired by “Final protocol for the settlement of the disturbances of 1900” concluded at Peking, Sept 7, 1901 (Art. VII)50 and rights thereto confirmed by “Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China for the relinquishment of extraterritorial rights in China and the regulation of related matters”, which was signed at Washington Jan 11, 1943 and entered into force May 20, 1943 (Art. II).51 Suggest you concert with colleagues.

Acheson
  1. Repeated to the Embassy at Nanking as No. 1282.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, Appendix, 1901, Affairs in China, pp. 312, 316.↩
  3. Department of State Treaty Series No. 984, or 57 Stat. (pt. 2) 767, 768.↩