611.939/140: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Lockhart) to the Secretary of State
Peiping, June 14,
1939—5 p.m.
[Received 7:55 p.m.]
[Received 7:55 p.m.]
281. Peiping’s 257, June 2, 4 p.m.
- 1.
- A local American manufacturer of carpets who received permit to export a shipment of carpets to Manila from Foreign Exchange Bureau was informed today by shipping agent that he could not accept any shipments from Peiping to Tientsin as carpets could not enter French Concession where customhouse is situated.
- 2.
- Tientsin’s 90, June 13, 10 a.m.,73 reports arrangements for the establishment of customhouse outside the Concessions in Tientsin. Informants state this morning that they have received confirmatory reports from Tientsin. Until this is done, export shipments from Peiping by American interests or for the United States appear to be impossible under present conditions.
- 3.
- Manager of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, one of informants, states that his company is making arrangements for agents to deposit collections either in Yokohama Specie Bank in Tientsin or in National City Bank in Peiping if restrictions on Concessions make deposit at the National City Bank at Tientsin too difficult.
Repeated to Chungking. By air mail to Tokyo. By mail to Tientsin and Shanghai.
Lockhart
- Not printed.↩