693.002/872: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
Shanghai, June 7,
1939—11 a.m.
[Received June 7—7:45 a.m.]
[Received June 7—7:45 a.m.]
470. Reference my No. 462, June 5, noon, regarding Customs at Hankow. Inspector General of Customs now informs me that the Commissioner of Customs at Hankow telegraphs that it is reported that postal parcels whether or not dutiable are being delivered free for the present, that is, the tax levy to which reference was made in previous telegrams has been suspended.
Repeated to Tokyo, Peiping, Chungking and Hankow.
Gauss