611.937/25: Telegram
The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Secretary of State
Peking, July 23, 1929—10
p.m.
[Received July 23—12:20 p.m.]
[Received July 23—12:20 p.m.]
617. My 564, July 12, 3 p.m.
- 1.
- In answer to my personal representations on July 12th Minister for Foreign Affairs assured me of his immediate attention to the matter of discrimination against Werner G. Smith Company but no [Page 814] relief has as yet been afforded. I am accordingly instructing American Consul at Nanking to renew representations to Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- 2.
- Reference first sentence of quotation in paragraph 2 of my 564,
July 12, 3 p.m. Following from American Consul General at Hankow:
“July 16, 5 p.m. Tax referred to in my 104, July 10, 10 a.m. has no relation to the special tax on wood oil abolished last April following representations by me to T. V. Soong. The new tax of $1 per ton is intended to be collected only [on] wood oil stored by the Werner G. Smith Company in the Standard Oil Company storage tanks and is being assessed against no other company.”
MacMurray