Office of the Historian

893.512/998

The Minister in China (MacMurray) to the Consul at Tsingtao (Dorsey)69

Peiping, October 21, 1929.

Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 340, of October 15, 1929,70 in which you inform the Legation that the Goods Tax now being collected at Tsingtao is the same as that referred to by the American Consul at Tsinan as the Shantung Provincial Consolidated Goods Tax, and in which you inquire whether or not a protest should be entered with the local authorities in view of the discriminatory features of the tax. Since the provisions of this tax appear to be clearly discriminatory, you are instructed to lodge a protest on these grounds with the local authorities.

I am [etc.]

J. V. A. MacMurray
  1. Copy transmitted to the Department by the Minister in his despatch No. 2388, October 21; received November 22, 1929.↩
  2. Not printed.↩