This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office when done with unless required for official use,
Decypher.
CHINA
MILITARY
Sir J. Jordan (Pekin)
August 3rd.1916.
D. 12.40 p.m. August 3rd.1916.
R. 1.30 p.m.
August 3rd.1916.
No. 240.
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My immediately preceding telegram.
His Majesty's Consul General at Canton reports there has been almost uninterrupted fighting for three days and nights. Lung is still holding his own but le
are flying over Shameen
being pressed. As bull most British women and c
dren have left.