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(A) to the Chiefs of Staff Report (Paper C. P. 126 (27)
revised in accordance with the Report of the Chiefs of
Staff Committee and the Cabinet discussion), setting forth
the dangers of the situation and the limitations of our own
means of co-operation for the defence of these places:
(b) That the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
should send a telegram to Sir Miles Lampson explaining the
situation and stating that, failing a satisfactory
response to his representations to Tokyo and Washington,
his existing instructions must stand, viz. to evaquate
Peking and Tientsin in the event of danger, of which he
was the only possible judge:
(၁)
In regardto Sanctions: That the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs should make strong representations to
the Powers who had co-operated in the representations to
the Nationalist Government in respect of the Nanking
outrages, in favour of united action in such sanctions as
might be deemed appropriate, and that, pending the
result of these representations, there could be no question
of isolated action by this country in applying sanctions.
The question of isolated action in the event of a refusal
by other Powers to co-operate was reserved for later
consideration in case of necessity:
(a) In regard to the form of Sanctions:
That the Committee of Chiefs of Staff should meet to
re-examine