Office of the Historian

893.51/6–1049: Telegram

The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Secretary of State

Canton, June 10, 1949—8 p. m.
[Received June 11—7:09 a. m.]

Cantel 560. Assume Department aware Chinese Government has finalized purchase second lot Mexican silver (Cantel 523, June 3) value US $7.1 million. Central Bank official stated today all available US dollar deposits now exhausted.

Clark