y
CABINET 65(26)
Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held on Wednesday, December 15th, 1926, at 2.30 p.m.
327
1.1 and it ry
inforce-
Previous
eference:
Inet 64 ),Con- Ausion 1).
5.
The Cabinet further considered the question
They of nav 1 and milit ry reinforcements to China. were informed that the Aamiralty had already sent in the aggreg te to th.t St tion three additional Cruisers, a flotilla of Destroyers, and an Airer ft
Carrier.
Reference was made to the earlier recomenda- tion of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in favour of an increase in our milit ry forces in the Far East (C.I.D. Paper No.617 B, confirmed by C.I.E.Paper No.177 B, both attached to Paper C.P.164 (26)).
!
Attention was drawn to a telegram from Peking| No.518, for arding the views of the Command at of the Shinghs1 Volunteer Corps in regard to the need for large ruinforcements in case of trouble at Changhɩl, and other evidence of great nervousness among the
The Cabinet were foreign communities on the Yangtse. informed, however, that the intern tional forces at Shingh 1 already numbered approximately 4,000. The gener 1 view of the Cabinet was that, having regird to the rapid changes in the situ tion in China and the
time