Office of the Historian

893.841 Surtax/16: Telegram

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

Peking, August 1, 1927—3 p.m.
[Received August 1—8:35 a.m.]

781. Your telegram number 302, July 30, 7 p.m. apparently crossed my telegram[s] 774, July 29, 9 p.m., and 776, July 30, 5 p.m.98 Shall I await further word from you before informing my colleagues that I cannot participate in any such action as they may take to resist the imposition of dues and duties contrary to treaty?

MacMurray
  1. Telegram No. 776, p. 402.↩