TO TALK TO A GROUP OF FARMERS FROM BEHIND OUR WIRE, AT THIS TIME A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE BELIEVED TO BE PRESSMEN OR
TOGRAPHERS WERE OBSERVED ON THE BRIDGE IN CHINESE TERRITORY.
AJ HOURS THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE DISTRICT COVNISSIONER AND THE FARMERS HAD BROKEN DOWN, THREE DEMANDS WERE
MADE SEMICOLON
(A) TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BRITISH AUTHORITIES WERE WRONG TO IDE PUT UP WIRE IN FIRST PLACE.
(D) TO REMOVE THE WIRE SEMICOLON
(C) TO UNDERTAKE NOT TO REPLACENT.
CET.
THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER REFUSED TO AGREE,
2
7
T 1943 HRS AN 7'S RELEASE.
5 THE BRIDGE.
MIL. PARY E
LAND FOR KNIG....
ATTEMPT WAS MADE BY ARMOURED CARS TO PROCURE BEFORE THEY COULD REACH HIM HE WAS THEN
SHORTLY AFTER THIS THE DISTRICT COMMISS,UMER
T UP TO THE BRIDGE AND BROADCAST A
NO REPLY WAS GIVEN.
W
O
VE INTEND TONIGHT TO INFORM OUR USUAL N CN A CONTACT OF THE FACTS STRESSING THAT KNIGHT WAS ABDUCTED APPARENTLY LY LOCAL PEASANTS AND TAKEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO CHINESE TRR, TOKY AND TO SAY THAT WE TAKE A SERIOUS VIEW OF THE INCIDENTS AND
EXPOT Ki..CHT TO BE RETURNED FORTHWITH TO HONA KONG WE ALSC
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TO CLOSE THE BRIDGE AT MAN KAM TO AT ANY RATE FOR TEL PERIOD.
RTICULARLY IN ORDER THAT THE AUTHORITIES IN PEKING SHOULD KNOW OF THE INCIDENT, I BELIEVE IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR A DEMARCHE 12 ILAR TERMS TO BE MADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE PREFERABLY T THE INESE CHARGE D'AFFAIRS IN LONDON,
(PRINCE PASS PEKING 569 AND WASHINGTON 319)
00' OR
GOVERNOR SENT AT
AT 1537Z/14 OCT. RECD AT 15373/14 OCT.
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