693.003/528: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Sammons)
Washington, December 5, 1918, 6
p.m.
For Arnold. Your telegram December 4, 11 a.m. While the question of frontier tariffs is important and an understanding as to proportionate increase desirable the Department understands that it is incidental to the main question under discussion and not a condition precedent to our agreement.
Polk