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The objections to the first of these suggestions were set forth in this department's letter

further objections

242/1/10 of Jamiary 28th last. will be found in Peking telegram No. 39, and Sir Austen Chamberlain considers that the idea is not practicable for the reasons already given,

5.

As regards suggestion (ii), apart from the appeal to the League, the possible organisation of an international counter-boycott of Canton, though it is likely to encounter great practical difficulties, seems the one active policy which deserves further exacination. This matter is being fully examined and a further letter will be addressed to your department at a later date, will not in any case be an easy task to enlist the active support of the other Powers, some of whom are profiting by the present state of affairs.

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The possibility of exerting pressure on loscow with a view to obtaining the removal of all Bolsheviks from Kwangtung has also been dealt with in Foreign Office letter of January 28th, and, as will be seen from Foreign

the office telegram to Paking No. 35 of January 29th,

only weapon available for this purpose would be a threat to withdraw His Majesty's Mission from Moscow, and it is

The iden doubtful whether even this would prove effective.

is not one that could profitably be adopted.

7.

The question of actual hostilities with Vanton

has not yet arisen, and, in view of its effect both on

this country and on the rest of China, it is clearly mo at desirable that it should not arise.

attitude of the other treaty Powers,

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