Office of the Historian

893.51/4446: Telegram

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

[Paraphrase]
Washington, December 15, 1923—noon.

250. Your telegram 391, December 9, 2 p.m. Department believes that Sun Yat-sen should not be allowed to seize customhouse at Canton. The plan of the consular body outlined in the telegram from the consul general to the Legation December 10, 6 p.m.,84 is approved.

Hughes
  1. See letter from the Secretary of State to President Coolidge, Dec. 13, p. 569.↩