This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be
returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.
CHINA
Decypher. Mr. Palairet, (Peking).
30th June, 1925.
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1925.
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30th June, 1925.
No. 182.
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Appreciation of the situation in paragraph
1 and 2 of your telegram No. 120 seems to me
substantially correct though I do not think anti-
foreign movement is gathering. If anything it
shows signs of slackening. Relations between Feng
and Chang remain obscure and neither seems able
or willing to attack the other. It is noteworthy that Feng has just issued a most violent manifesto
in which he declares himself ready to fight to
the last in the defence of China's rights,
Paragraph 4. At the present stage of
negotiation with Chinese Government it is difficult
to suggest any useful action or declaration by
His Majesty's Government except on lines of my
telegram No. 168. If anything occurs to me later
I will permit myself to submit to your consideration.'
In the meantime I am doing what I can to counter-
act anti-British propaganda here.
Paragraph 5. Any commission of this kind
would have of course to be international and should
certainly not be military in character. I mentioned
the matter casually to my colleagues who did not
think the moment had yet come for considering the
situation.