The Archive · 1929

THE SINO-AMERICAN TARIFF TREATY

Ratification Officially Notified to Nanking Nanking, Feb. 23.

The American Consul called at} the Foreign Office this morning and officially notified the officials there! Jof the United States ratification of the Sino-American Tariff Treaty, which was signed at Peking on July 25, 1928, by the United States Minister, Mr. J. V. A. MacSfurray, and] the Chiness Minister of Pinuneo, Mr. T. V. Soong.

Mr. MacMurray's telegram to th JAmerican Consul read as. follows: hi 'A State Department telegram, dat-jed February 12, stated that the [United States Senate, on February]

gave its consent to the ratifies tion of the Sino-American Tarif?

Treaty. The Department is arrang-_ jing for the exchange of ratifieations."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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