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DATE
5. 5. 27.
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658. In amplification of my 555 recommend a t ions are
1.
If His Majesty's Goverment wish to put pressure on
Jan tonese Government following measures are available to
(a) If compelled to not alone.
Interruption of the
passage of troops across the Yangtse at the railway centres at Hankow and Nanking an elu owhere below
Ha nto wi
interruption of purely Chinago traffic on
the Yangtɛe:
seisure of the cantonsee foot:
if the ooment of the Powers cxa se où tu inad &
blockade df the Yangtse and of the approaches to
Canton.
(This is subject to a favourable reply from the
Naval C. in C. regarding the strength of the defend es
of the Yangtee at Kiangyin).
(b) If acting with other powers.
The above supplemented
by comɔlote blockade and the control of river traffic
an the Yungtɛe.
Telegraph to British Minister
Peking.
Continued in sparate telegram
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