893.512/699: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Mayer) to the Secretary of State
Peking, October 20,
1927—11 a.m.
[Received October 20—10:50 a.m.]
[Received October 20—10:50 a.m.]
937. Your 358, October 11, 1 p.m. Following from American consul general, Canton:
“October 14, 9 a.m. Your October 7, 6 p.m.68 The surtax referred to is the one mentioned in this consulate general’s despatch to [Page 423] the Legation of October 8, 1926,69 and has never been abolished.
The new tax is ten percent of the above tax, the latter in specific instances amounting to two and a half, five, and seven and a half percent.”
Mayer
- See telegram No. 914, Oct. 7, from the Chargé in China, p. 419.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1926, vol. i, p. 873.↩