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vent to issue a manifesto on the subject, copy of which
attached (enclosure No.1) calling upon the foreign
owers to withhold recognition from Peking until a
presentative Government is established. At about the
namely
me time, same towards the end of June, the Chinese
charts of Shanghai met and passed a resolution denouncing
Be Peking Government as illegal; but in this connection
i must be borne in mind that Shanghai is in the hands of
blitical opponents of the Chihli Farty, The desirability
or otherwise of withdrawing recognition from the Peking
Government has been discussed in telegrame exchanged
with Your Lordship in connection with the Linch eng
ttlement. The objection to such a course of action
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are sufficiently obvious, as for instance the absence
or any conteal body whom we could hold even nominally
rsonalble for the carrying out of China's Treaty and
Lan obligations, while it would be as likely to hasten
kisintegration as to promote unification and stabilisa-
Gion of Government. The question is, however, unfortunat é-
By likely to come to the fore again if conditions continue
Lo deter forete, and it may therefore be useful to examine
Briefly the claims of the Peking Administration to be re-
nised as the Central Government of China, as far as
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