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**The Under-Secretary of State." Foreign Offico,
London, S.W.1.
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C. 5882
13 MAR 1926
FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.7.1.
11th March, 1926.
I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to
say that he has had under careful consideration the telegram
from the Governor of Hongkong of February 6th enclosed in
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your letter No. 3026/1926 of February 16th, in which the
Governor treats at length of the situation at Canton and
urges in particular that in view of the treaty violations
on the part of the Canton Government, His Majesty's
Government should, in virtue of article 7 of the Nine-
Power Treaty of Washington, confer with the other signatory Powers with a view to the institution of a joint counter- blockade of Canton pending the removal of the Anti-British boycott. Most of the points raised by Sir C. Clementi had already been dealt with in Foreign Office letters F 242/ 1/10 and F 439/1/10 of January 28th and February 17th respectively, but Sir Austen Chamberlain has, in the meantime, carefully considered the possibility of somethin_
in the nature of a "counter-blockade", which appeared, at the time that letter was written, to deserve further examination, and I am to request that the following observations on this point may be laid before the Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
2. If this policy were adopted, there would appear to be
three possible courses of action:
(1)
The action proposed in 1918, 1919 and 1920, when the
Canton/
le Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.