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Be 7 4795/194/10.
FORSIGH OFFICE
2.1.1.
5th October, 1926.
Secret. Urgent.
Sir!-
I am directed by Mr. Saaretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.43724/25 of the 30th ultimo, in which you request his views upon the answer to be returned to a telegram from sir R. Stubbs dated the 26th September enquiring whether he should encourage the Chinese in Hongkong to lend money to Chen Kwing Ming.
2.
Mr. Chamberlain coneurs in the view expressed by His Majesty's Cmrgé d'Affaires et Peking in his telegram of September 26th (a copy of which was sent to the Colonial Office on September 28th and of which a further copy is now enɑlosed) that Hie Majesty's Government are not concerned in any loss which Chinese merchants may care to make to Chen Kwing Ming.
Under-Seeretary of State,
Colonial office.
I am,
sir.
Your obedient Servant,
(54) S. P. WATERLOW,