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Cypher Telegram to sir J. Jordan (Peking)
Foreign Office, October 18th, 1916,
No. 193.
3.0.p.m.
Your telegram No: 305 (of October 14th. Shanghan
Bureau).
I should be glad to receive your own views on Con- sul General's answer. It seems undesiracle to inferr
6 cut of 9 councillors owing to danger of leakage, which would certainly lead to a protest by enemy and reutral Consuls and would probably wreck the entire sonthe.
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