Copy.
Colonial Office paraphrase of telegram (cypher)
No.140 dated 23rd May, 1930 from Foreign Office
to Sir Miles Lampson, Peking.
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With reference to your telegram dated
the 9th May, 1930 (No.170) on the subject of the
agreement between the Chinese Government and the
cable Companies, I shall be glad if you will inform
the Company that no decision regarding the
future of the Chinese Telegraph Office at Hongkong
can be taken save in relation to the terms of
whatever arrangement may eventually be concluded between the Companies and His Majesty's Government,
which cannot in advance commit itself to any
decision on the matter. However, you should point
out that if the rights of the companies in China be entirely abrogated it may be assumed that the Secretary of State for the Colonies would hold that one of the principal reasons for permitting the Chinese telegraph office to remain in Hongkong was
no longer effective.
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