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COPY OF TELEGRAM.
SECRET.
P.
From
C.in . China.
To-Admiralty.
Cyp her G.E. (F.0.)
IN
DATE
22.6.27
SENT
RECD.
2130.
x(
190. {?(My 104) and your 885) H.M.S."¿phis" and
H.M.S. "Ladybird" complete about 29th June ?(and I)
Intend to f(keep them) at shanghai for the present with
the intention of cending then to Tientsin if necessary.
I am strongly of opinion that ?(we ought to be)
representei ut Ching wing Tao by a battalion which can be
easily spared from Shanghai. Submit these only
nationals not represented there and from conversations with Japanese Admiral Japanese are surprised at our
absence.
General Dungan aonours,
1st Lord. C.E.S.
-D.OH.B.
4.C.N.5.
D.D.O.D. (2).
D.C.
M.8
D.of F.
D. S.D. (Personal).
1103/22.
X. Not circulated