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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be
returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]
FROM CHINA.
Decypher.
Sir M. Lampson. (Nanking).
August 2nd. 1931.
D.
August 2nd. 1931.
R.
10.0.p.m. August 4th. 1931.
No. 14.
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Your telegram No. 144 has evidently crossed my
telegram No. 8 which gives my preliminary vicws as
ascribed from here to United States Minister now in
Peking.
But communication is slow and as in addition
letter had to go by safe opportunity (?grs.omitted)
uncertain and he may not receive my letter for some
time.
2. As soon as I get back to the north I will
discuss more fully with him and report.
3. My feeling is that just as in the case of Nanking incident, when my negotiations without doubt and admittedly gave Americans their settlement, so in
present instance background of our spring negotiations
may conceivably help them to get better terms over
Shanghai. But personally I gravely doubt it unless
Chinese have their tails well down which is improbable
if they are sufficiently stable for us to wish to re-
open negotiations with them.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 14 of August 2nd;
repeated to Peking and Shanghai.
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