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CABINET 6(27)
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Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, on Wednesday, February 2nd, 1927, at 3.30.p.m.
CHINA
(Previous Reference: Cabinet 5 (27) Con- clusion 1.)
1. The Secretary of State for Foreign
Affaire informed the Cabinet that the telegram
containing the text of Eugene Chen's statement to
Vr. O'Malley explaining his refusal to sign
agreements in regard to Hankow and Kiu Kiang
unless we refrained from landing a military force
in Shanghai was now being deciphered at the Foreign
Office but was not yet available. He thought it
important, before taking a decision, to learn the
views of Sir Miles Lampson. In the meanwhile
he did not feel in a position to make proposals to
the Cabinet, and suggested that the question should
be adjourned.
The Secretary of State for War raised the
question ng to whether the Battalion of the Suffolk
Regiment, due in a few days at Hong-Hong, should
proceed to Shanghai or be disembarked at Hong-Kong.
In this connection attention was drawn to
telegram No.1316, cipher, of February 2nd, from
the General Officer Commanding at Hong Kong in
which