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THENORAH from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of "ong Kong.

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(Bent 2.30 p.m. 20th November, 1926).

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Your telegram 16th Hovmber pårasy in view of urgency instructions of His Majesty's Government were sent through Naval Commander in Chief, I am glad to learn from newspaper and other reports that the incident terminated so successfully please telegraph full particulars as soon as available also whether any founda- tion for report that outbreak also occurred on B.8. "Rongpeng".

His Majesty's Government are giving earnest consideration to the general question of the measures to be adopted to suppress the pirate gangs in Kwangtung and I hope shortly to be able to reply to your despatch asoret 30 June. with reference te paragraph 7 your despatch secret 25 July frontier outrages His Majesty's deverment while sympathising with your attituds have decided that in view of the difficulty and delicacy of the situation generally they must insist that British troops should an ne account be employed outside the frontier without specific instructions from His Majesty's Goverment.

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