Office of the Historian

893.51/5373: Telegram

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

Peiping, August 30, 1930—noon.
[Received August 30—2:14 a.m.]

767. Legation’s 473, June 20, 4 p.m. Nanking Government continues to urge the British Government to deport and punish Lenox Simpson for participating in the Tientsin customs seizure. I am confidentially informed that the British Government is opposed to taking the desired action on the ground that it is being asked to intervene in an area in which Nanking under present circumstances is not in a position itself to exercise authority.

Johnson