No. 13 (21030/27)
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F.C.,
C-in-C,
Hongkong
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BRITISH LEGATION PIKING.
7th December 1927.
Sir,
I have received your despatch number 190 of November
14th, transmitting a translation of a letter from the
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Canton claiming £572,452.
in respect of damage alleged to have been done to the villages
of Taipinghu and Fulai as a result of the naval punitive
expedition undertaken after the piracy of the .S."Kochow".
2. I approve your proposal to return no reply to this
claim.
J.F. Brenan Esquire, C.M.G.,
Acting British Consul-General,
CANTON.
I am, etc.,
(Signed) Miles Lampson.