393.1153 Texas Co./3: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in China (Johnson)
Washington, June 14, 1930—3
p.m.
197. The Texas Company has reported that military authorities in Honan under threat of confiscation of company’s goods stored in rented warehouse at Taokow have extorted silver dollars twenty-five thousand in illegal taxes. Please radio briefly circumstances and the steps taken or contemplated by the company, Consulate General and Legation.
Stimson