Mr.
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Mr. Elli
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C. D.
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Downing Street,
385
16 December, 1926.
Mr. Strachey.
Sir J. Shuckburgh,
Sir G. Grindle. /↳
Sir,
Sir C. Davis.
VNær S. Wilson
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Earl of Clarendon.
K. Mr. Amory. Mir
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ECIDER SECRETARY OF STATE
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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I am directed by Mr. Secretery
Amery to acknowledre the receipt of your
letter No. F 3476/3476/10 of the 24th
November forwarding a copy of a memoran-
dum prepared by the Chinese Counsellor
to His Majesty's Legation Peking, on
the subiect of the recognition of
provincial Governments in China.
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2.
Mr. Amery appreciates the argu-
tents adduced against the suggestion
that His Majesty's Cover.ment should
take the initiative in offering terms
to recognise t'e/independence of the
provincial or regional authorities in
China. I er to observe however that
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