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SECRET.

TELEGRAM.

OUT

No.

From ADMIRALTY.

DATE

To

0. in 3. Chim. 818.

repeated to British .inister Tekin 6.

18th May, 1987.

SENT

1959.

Foreign Officer ypher a (reoyphered)

But it we never contempl. ted that this or any other

British ro roe should be used for extended operations in

shin

would required to produce cider out of

existing ghaos

even to hold the various

ored

concezeione which it hae been found necessary to evngun te.

10eraɛted ze a measure

for was the reoccupation of ..to w

in itself capable of restoring trade.

sidered by ..overnment us a sanation for the Ranking cats

Tapes,

It kas only oon-

de dan only flousien in 2. atrosukere of nence

and order where it can ocvelop freely. The reoccupation

of lenkow might have erminlud British mtionels to move

freely within the concession itself as longe the occupation

continued bat whilst other conditione reined nchanged, it

could not have restored tride whigh wicht ell have been

expored both there and elsewhere to a more intensive und

Ine ting boycott in sons queno of it. bere local conditions

are unfavourable or abere a state of unrest or civil war

@uporvenes, the tradere aut themselves judge of the riske

involved to their tre je and mate their ownücoinions as to

whether they can occtinue to sold on in present conditione.

K.n.Coverment a proof to the courage and mudurance which

the @ritish communities throughoat China nave sho en in

Giroumetues of extraordiny difficulty and hurdehio and

will do whatever they properly on to protect and essiet

The. bat the negaures undertaken mast ·refully nd jus ted

to the object in vig

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