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Decypher.
Sir L. Lampson (Nanking).
10th December, 1928.
D. 6.00 p.m. 10th December, 1928.
R. 4.30 p.m.
10th December, 1928.
No. 51.
Private.
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Your telegram No.9.
I am sorry for I had hoped to use this
indirectly to get us out of some of our many
difficulties, customs for instance, as might have
been possible. Also, it would have shown in
striking and practical fashion that we are very
much in earnest in our desire to help them
stabilize their position. It is a moment when
some such outstanding act would go straight
home; in addition we should have been well quit
of a further prospect of entanglement:
have quite enough to carry.
we already
Addressed to roreign Office 51, December 10th.
Repeated to Peking.