793.003/484: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 22—2:40 p.m.]
1073. Legation’s 1058, December 18, 6 p.m. Following telegram has been sent to Minister Johnson at Nanking:
“December 22, 7 p.m. French Minister has received instructions from his Government in reply to the [omission]’s suggestion of a year ago that the Chinese submit concrete proposals regarding extraterritoriality; that the proposals made to Wilden last month at Nanking have been forwarded to Paris for consideration and that the French Government is reluctant to believe that the Chinese will compromise international relations by unilateral action as intimated in the last sentence of the memorandum.
2. Netherlands Minister, who has received same document as the French, purposes to seek authority to make a similar reply.”