Office of the Historian

893.51 Salt Funds/70: Telegram

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

Peiping, October 2, 1930—5 p.m.
[Received October 4—9:05 a.m.]

872. Legation’s 486, June 23, 6 p.m. Following from American Consul General at Tientsin:

“According to the statement of Foreign District Inspector of the Changlu district on September 22nd he effected the remittance to Shanghai for the service of foreign loan obligations secured on the salt revenue the sum of $649,290.20 local currency representing the [Page 274] amount of the Changlu loan quotas accumulated at Tientsin since May last.”

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