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Cypher telegram to H.M. Representatives at:-
Tokyo
No. 175
Washington
No. 864
Rome
No. 290
Paris
No. 33 (Saving.)
Foreign Office. December 22nd, 1931.
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My telegram No. 174 to Nanking (of December 17th; danger of disregard of extraterritorial privileges after January 1, 1932).
Please ascertain whet view the Government to which you are accredited take of the danger that extraterritorial privileges in China may be dis.... regarded after January 1, 1932, and whether they are prepared to adopt an attitude similar to that outlined in my telegram under reference. To Tokyo only.
If special measures of precaution at the various treaty ports of China should re found to be necessary we should of course welcome the co- operation of the Japanese Government in them. In view however, of recent events in Manchuria you should be careful not to give the impression that we contemplate any aggressive action or indeed any action inconsistent with our obligations under the Covenant and the Pact.