Office of the Historian

711.933/199: Telegram

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

[Paraphrase]
Peiping, December 24, 1929—3 p.m.
[Received December 24—7:20 a.m.]

1188. The British Minister has supplied me with the British Foreign Office aide-mémoire regarding extraterritoriality, delivered on [Page 660] December 20 to the Chinese Minister in London, the text of which, I understand, the Department has received. On receiving the text, Dr. C. T. Wang has now informed Sir Miles Lampson’s representative in Nanking that the National Government is going to issue on December 31 a declaration to abrogate extraterritoriality, taking effect in six months.

Perkins