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CABINET 19 (27)
Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, on Monday, March 28th, 1927, at 11.30.a..
CHINA
(Previous Reference: Cabinet 18 (27) Con- clusion 7.)
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1. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
gave the Cabinet a summary of the most recent
information in regard to developments in China,
and more particularly at Nanking, where several
foreigners had lost their lives, the British
Consulate-General had been sacked and the Consul-
General wounded on the entry of the Cantonese forces.
He referred in particular to a telegram from the Naval
Commander-in-Chief, dated March 27th, raising the
question of retaliatory action over the Nanking
episode, a subject on which he informed the Cabinet
that the American and Japanese Admirals had also
telegraphed to their respective Governments.
Among other matters, Sir Austen Chamberlain
referred to telegraphic correspondence between Sir
Miles Lampson and Mr. Teichman, at Hankow,
regarding the desirability of the evacuation of
British subjects from the Upper Yangtze.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies
read to the Cabinet a series of telegrams he had
exchanged with the Governor of Hong Kong in regard to
a plot to murder the Governor and several other
persons