Office of the Historian

893.512/720: Telegram

The Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, December 2, 1927—5 p.m.
[Received December 2—7:34 a.m.]

Referring to Department’s telegram of October 1, 6 p.m., and my telegraphic reply October 3, 5 p.m. Nationalist Government has now suspended collection of fifty percent special tax on tobacco products, and American importers are clearing their cargo by the payment of the treaty duty and so-called Washington surtaxes. I am therefore at present no longer accepting payment of the treaty duty on tobacco products as authorized by the Department’s telegram.

Cunningham