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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
MILITARY.
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Cypher Telegra: to Sir C. Spring Rice (Washington)
10.30. pull. Foreign Office, May 5th, 1916.
10. 1161. (R),
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After discussing the question with the First Lord of the Admiralty as I had promised to do I have told the American Ambassador that in deference to what the United States Government have urgod we agree to rc- icase the men who were removed from the "China",
I have however added that I will in a few days give the Ambassador a memorandum not to qualify the
but concession made as regards this particular case,
to guard against it becoming a precedent that would open the door to other cases that differ from it.
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