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ROM CHINA.
Sir M. Lampson. (Peking).
December 24th. 1931.
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5.55.p.m. December 24th. 1931.
穴。 1.50.p.m. December 24th. 1931.
No. 740.
(R).
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Your telegram No. 174 Tour.
I am (? acting) as paragraph 2 but there is at
present no one in real authority in
Nanking,
2. I have informed United States Minister fully.
Before leaving Nenking he warned Mr. Koo on his own
initiative on much the same lines as I had previously
done. Mr. Koo sounded him as to possibility of America
resuming negotiations but received no encouragement.