Office of the Historian

893.51/3962: Telegram

The Minister in China (Schurman) to the Acting Secretary of State

Peking, September 8, 1922—4 p.m.
[Received September 8—9:15 a.m.]

364. Your 209, September 1, 5 p.m. Legation has repeatedly brought this situation to the attention of the Foreign Office, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Communication[s]. Payments continue to be made fairly regularly on 14,000,000 treasury notes,74 consolidated internal loans, and now on 96,000,000 while Government is indifferent to defaulted foreign obligations. Full report follows.73

Schurman
  1. See telegram no. 19, Jan. 21, from the Minister in China, p. 762.↩
  2. Not printed.↩