Office of the Historian

500.A 4e 1/51: Telegram

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

Washington, March 18, 1924—5 p.m.

55. Your No. 77 March 13, 4 p.m. and Evans’ telegram to Buforcom March 15.32 Pending the receipt of further instructions, you should not take such a part in conference with your colleagues as to indicate or commit in any way the position of this Government with respect to the proposal for a preliminary conference.

Hughes
  1. Telegram from Mr. Arthur H. Evans, assistant commercial attaché at Peking, to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; not printed.↩