No. 62 Confidential.

C.O

18498

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381

Rec! 13 APR 20ebruary 9th, 1920.

Copies to Tokyo and Hongkong.

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My lord,

With reference to Your Lordship's telegras No. 20 of

the 24th ultimo and to my dekpgraphic reply Bo.44 of the 27th,

I have the honour to report that l called at the Vai Chiso Pu

on January 26th by special appointment to discuss the question

of Kao 40.

1 reminded the Vice-ilinist er of our Treaty engagement s

with Portugal, and informed him that His Majesty's Government

having learned that the Chinese had sent troops and ships of

war to Kacau, had instructed His Kajesty's Consul General at

Canton to approach the Southern Government with a view to res-

training then from any aggressive sction: at the same time i

had been instructed to urge the Central Government to use all

the influence they could with the Canton Government to prevent

aggression by the latter.

Mr Ch'en Lu replied that he feared there was little

The Right Honourable

The Karl Curzon of Kadleston, K.0.0.0.3, 1.,

etc.

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