Office of the Historian

893.841 Surtax/27: Telegram

The Chargé in China (Mayer) to the Secretary of State

Peking, August 14, 1927—3 p.m.
[Received August 14—9:22 a.m.]

806. 1. Following from American consul at Shanghai:

“August 14, noon. Acting under the authority of the Legation’s telegrams July 11, 5 p.m.;2 August 1, 7 p.m.;3 and August 10, 4 p.m., the President Taft was cleared at the request of owners only by [Page 452] consular clearance after Bank of China declined to accept legal tonnage dues at the rate of 4 mace and Customs had refused to issue [a] no-objection slip. The Dollar Company was given all precautionary warnings contained in the Legation’s instructions referred to.”

2. Department’s telegram No. 314, August 11, 6 p.m. was repeated to Shanghai as the Legation’s 134, August 13, noon.

Mayer
  1. Not printed; it repeated the Department’s instructions as given in telegram No. 280, July 9, to the Minister in China, p. 435.↩
  2. Not printed; it repeated the Department’s instructions as given in telegram No. 302, July 30, to the Minister in China, p. 444.↩