393.11/693: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Mayer) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 17—7:30 a.m.]
812. In support of the recommendations made in the Legation’s 808, August 15, 4 p.m., please refer to Hankow’s August 16, 4 p.m. to the Department,36 paragraph 2, with reference to the attitude of American business organizations. Lockhart has reported, in reply to a telegram from [apparent omission] that so far as he has been able to discover, no American business enterprises, with the exception of the Yangtze Rapid[s] Company, are endeavoring to resume operations at interior points. The Standard Oil Company has one man at Changsha collecting outstandings and selling off stocks now on hand but he will shortly return to Hankow. An attempt may later be made to do the same thing at Chungking but there is no pressure being brought at present on the Hankow consulate general to permanently resume business of service at interior places.
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