action themselves.
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The Hongkong Government adhered
nevertheless to the principle of the landing of a
military force and the datation of houses and
oraft.
The C-in-C., howɛver, remained opposed to
further action at the present time on shere at Bias
Bay and repeated his aversion to the shelsonle des-
trustion of villages, a view which tallied with my
own feeling on the sund jeat.
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ir, ruman, whêm I had meantims consulted.
agreed with the C-in-C, and myself that further land
operations ngsinat Dâns My were undesirable in prem
In his ense, the view WRA
grounded on the syinion that anch operations would be
licely to cause further anti-British agitation ami
boycott. As an alternative, he again put forward a
suggestion, made earlier in the year, that the bast
form of action was te sṣation a warship sentimously
in Sina Bay.
funo
B. At shia junsture the idam of some form of
international cooperation was revived by the Beniar
Kinister as a meeting of the Diplomatie Body en
Tovember 16th. Monsieur Gudendijk observed that most
of the representatives had expressed their views in reply to his ciresiar of September Elst and it romain-
od to decide what nation, if any, was possible.
#shambat difrume disenssion which fellowed showed that
the only hope of progross lay in referring the matter
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