693.003/528: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Arnold) to the Acting Secretary of State
Shanghai, December
4, 1918, 11 a.m.
[Received December 4, 6.33 a.m.]
[Received December 4, 6.33 a.m.]
Is American delegate correct in assuming that American acquiescence in present maritime tariff revision is dependent upon proportionate increases in frontier tariffs? American trade will suffer in competition with Japanese land borne trade if frontier tariffs not proportionately increased.
Arnold