861.77/1752: Telegram
The President of the Technical Board (Stevens) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 8—4:18 a.m.]
Your cable of September 24, 6 p.m.70 I could not consider making a trip to the United States with the prospect of returning here under present arrangement. If a definite arrangement covering all the certain absolutely necessary points I have heretofore cabled is certain to be made, then I would be willing. As the whole matter from my limited information now stands I can patiently wait a month or more longer but I object very strongly to remaining here another winter under present conditions. From the information which the American Minister has just given me about the Chinese Government-Russo-Asiatic Bank agreement the outlook for anything satisfactory does not appear very promising although the opinion expressed in your cipher telegraph above mentioned is encouraging.
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