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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