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NO DISTRIBUTION.
Code telegram to Mr.
Newton (Peking).
Foreign Office.
No. 54.
(R).
20th February, 1928. 2.5 p.m.
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Your telegram No. 14 to Hongkong. (Chinese
telegraph office at Hongkong).
Following for Sir M. Lampson.
Begins.
Please discuss with Governor present situation and
proposal made in his telegram of February 3rd to
Colonial Office and telegraph your recommendations.
It may
It appears possible that Superintendent Liu's
temporary reinstatement and Chen Ching-wen's return to
Peking may be part of a face-saving procedure.
therefore be well to avoid precipitate action pending
Peking'e reply to Chen's communication referred to in
paragraph 2 of Sir C. Clementi's telegram.