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NAVAL MESSAGE NAVY DEPARTMENT DRAFTER EXTENSION NUMBER ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE 1 ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE 2 FROM EDWIN A. LOCKE, JR. PRIORITY P 3 RELEASED BY Work.,In JAMES A. JACOBSON 4 ROUTINE DEPUTY IN CHARGE 5 DATE 20 SEPTEMBER 1945 AMERICAN PRODUCTION MISSION DEFERRED 6 ALUSNA CHUNGKING, CHINA VEU 7 8 TOR CODEROOM DICLASSITIO ily authority of 9 OF COMMERCE LTR SEP 20 22 17'45 PRIORITY 10 DECODED BY TOMAND/11-1572 11 MEMO NL To ROUTINE 12 TYPED ROUTED BY UNLESS BY sone OTHERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL laitials NLT BE TRANSMITTED BV2 pear 4-12-23 DEFERRED 13 Date 5/21/7 476 14 CATIONAL 15 WITH GERRED PRECEDENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE ARCHIVESTAL IF 0 TRATIONAL 16 us. SERVICES CHF FLOW 17 202130 SOVERNMENT 18 19 ORIGINATOR FILL IN DATE AND TIME: DATE 9/20/45 TIME 02130 GCT 20 ON OUTGOING DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT CNE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNING TEXT ACTION 21 FROM LOCKE ACTION JAMES A JOCOBSON AMERICAN F-0 22 PROD MISSION CHUNGKING X 23 F-00 24 PLEASE GIVE FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO DR. WONG WEN-HAO: 25 F-01 26 MR. JACOBSON HAS TOLD ME OF YOUR INTEREST IN FORMOSAN SUGAR F-02 - 27 F-05 28 PROBLEM. I FULLY SHARE YOUR FEELING AS TO ITS IMPORTANCE. MY CONVICTION - 29 F-07 30 IS THAT CHINESE GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO INSURE PROPER F-1 31 32 HARVESTING AND MARKETING OF THE COMING SEASON'S CROP. IN VIEW OF WORLD F-2 33 F-20 34 SUGAR SHORTAGE I AM INFORMED BY EXPERTS HERE THAT FORMOSAN RAW SUGAR SHOULD 35 F-3 36 FIND READY ACCEPTANCE IN WORLD MARKETS AT THIS TIME. MY INFORMATION IS 37 F-30 38 THAT 1946 SALES TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES COULD REPRESENT THE EQUIVALENT OF F-31 39 F-32 40 ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS AMERICAN. IT IS PLAIN THAT FOREIGN EXCHANGE 41 F-33 42 IN THIS AMOUNT OR ANYTHING APPROACHING IT COULD BE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE F-34 43 44 TO CHINESE ECONOMY, AND ESPECIALLY IN ACCELERATING THE RATE OF CHINA'S F-4 45 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. I FULLY AGREE THAT NO EFFORT SHOULD BE SPARED TO NOKRL 46 47 of 48 SEND ONE OR MORE CAPABLE SUGAR SPECIALISTS TO FORMOSA FROM THIS COUNTRY. FX40 49 50 IG-00 RELIABLE REPORTS WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED ON ERNEST W. KOPKE ARE NOT 31 VCNO 52 Make original only. Deliver to Code Room Watch Officer in person. (See Art. 76 (4) NAVREGS.) O P N A V 19-68 -