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96.At an earlier stage of the development of wents in
China, on our recommendation the Advisory Committee on
Trading and Blockade reported on the value of a blockade
of Carton (C.I.D. Paper No.661--3).
27. Our attention has been drawn to telegrams from China
indicating that already the Chinese Nationalist Covernment
is apprehensive in regard to the econoric pressure which
can be exerted by British barks. We recommend that the
Trading and Blockade Committee should be assembled at
once to report on all the possibilities of economic
pressure on the Nationalist Government of China in the
conditions which row exist,hether by international
action or, in the last resort, by the British alone.
Although British action perhaps deserves examination
in case we may be driven to it, we would emphasize the
great importance of securing intemational co-aperation
in any steps that may be taken to bring economic pressure
to bear.
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