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States of America, who had participated in the original
Notê in regard to the Nanking outrages.
Further, the
United States Minister at Peking, who has throughout favoured
joint action, has warned Sir Miles Lampson in the strongest
terms against a re-occupation of the Concession as an
independent British action as calculated to have a
sensational and adverse effect in America, where our
motives would be misconstrued "and render hopeless any
further idea of future Anglo-American co-operation in China"
(Sir Miles Lampson, Peking, No.805, of April 30th). The
only nation whose co-operation in sanctions at Hankow can be
counted on is Italy.
(A)
There isevidence that in Shanghai the Hankow
Agreement is regarded as a "low river" policy, to be thrown
over when the rise in the river enables the Concession to be
re-occupied. This accentuates the difficulty of convincing
world opinion of the real justificati n which exists for
tearing up an agreement which has been flagrantly violated
by the Nationalist Goverment.
(vi) Some evidence was produced that the justification
for a re-occupation of the Concession is not well understood
in the Dominions at present.
(vii) There are many indications that the Nationalist
Government at Hankow is weaker, both from a political and
economic point of view.
The