Office of the Historian

893.51/3266: Telegram

The Minister in China (Crane) to the Secretary of State

Peking, February 15, 1921—4 p.m.
[Received February 15—10:04 a.m.]

89. Your 60, February 8, 7 p.m. Instructions to inform my colleagues, Foreign Office, and Canton in regard to accumulated though unpaid allocations recently made and future Southern surpluses have been carried out.

In a confidential interview Inspector General Customs informed me of his forebodings in view of possible bankruptcy Central Government.

Crane