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FROM CHINA.
Decypher.
Sir M. Lampson. (Peking)
April 11th, 1929.
D.
7.20.p.m. April 11th, 1929.
R.
3.45.p.m. April 11th, 1929.
No. 308.
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Addressed to Mr. Newton No. 88 April 11th.
Foreign Office telegrams Nos. 137 end 138.
Time is getting short seeing that correspondence
has to lie fourteen days before Parliament before even (? present) accumulated funds can be touched. General
election is on May 30th and business will no doubt be
impeded some little time before then.
It seems therefore desirable you should sound
Minister for Foreign Affairs at once and see how far he is prepared to fall in with underlying ideas of the whole scheme. This I imagine he should be readily
moved to do. You might also keep in touch with Wang
Chung-hui who is personally interested in the matter; he has often discussed it with me and I hinted to him
when in Nanking that some strikingly generous gesture
on our part might possibly meterialize before long.
My two following telegrams contain (? ell) draft notes from Minister for Foreign Affairs to me embodying principles of (A) remission of indemnity funds and (B) separate assurance regarding payment of railway debts. These will doubtless require certain amount of elabora- tion and modification after you have ascertained spirit in which our proposals are received and line settlement
is...
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