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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. F 2562/949/23.
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
.. The Under-Scoretary of State,” Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
Confidential
FOREIGN OFFICE.
5.W.1.
8th July, 1926.
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Sir,
With reference to your letter No. 12210/1926 of June 23rd last, enclosing a despatch from the Governor
of Hongkong on the subject of Japanese policy in China. I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Amery, that he concure in the proposal that Tokyo despatch No. 33 of January 26th last, should be sent to Sir C. Clementi Copies are enclosed accordingly.
2. Sir Austen Chamberlain concurs generally in Sir 0. Eliot's appreciation of the present position. On the other hand, he finds himself unable to accept certain of the conclusions drawn by Sir C. Clementi. He does not consider, for exemple, that Japan has pursued a policy of fomenting civil war in China, only since the Anglo-Japanese alliance has been terminated. This policy in fact was
more marked before the end of the alliance, when, for instance, the Japanese encouraged the movement against Yuen Shi-kai in 1915 and 1916. It seems very doubtful, moreover, whether Japan would willingly foster a movement having any communist tendency. Both for domestic reasons of her own, and because it implies an increase in Russian
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