611.939/82: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in China (Peck)
22. Reference Shanghai’s telegram January 30, 4 p.m.,90 in regard to complaint of Henningsen Produce Company. Department does [Page 647] not, upon the showing made and in view of all the attendant circumstances, feel that a protest against the restrictive instructions in question would, in the absence of discrimination against American interests, be warranted. Department does, however, authorize you, in your discretion, to make an informal approach to the Chinese Foreign Office for the purpose of informing it of the reported destination of the eggs which the Henningsen Produce Company desires to ship and of the benefits that would accrue to the Chinese Government from such shipment, with the object of persuading the Government to make an exception in the case under consideration.
Repeated to Peiping and Shanghai.
- Not printed.↩