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CHINA.
Code telegram to Mr. Pelairet,
Foreign Office,
No. 143. (R).
(Peking).
760
July 12th, 1925. Koon.
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Your telegrins Nos. 224 and 225.
In discussion in the House of Commons on
June 15th I said that there should be the fullest
and frankest enquiry. It hardly seems to me from
the reports which I have so far received that this
promise is as yet fulfilled by the enquiries hitherto
held. Some further public judicial enquiry seems
to offer the only solution which I can see of the
present deadlock and the only hope of satisfying
either British or Chinese that the case has been
fairly examined. I presume that if such en enquiry
were held the Municipal Council would suspend
police commissioner pending result und would
undertake to abide by the findings.
Please let me have your suggestions as to how
such a Court of Enquiry could best be constituted.
My idea would be to ask chief justice Shanghai or
Hong Kong to preside and to associate with him an
American and Chinese Judge. Please telegraph
urgently your observations on this proposal.