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To CHINA
Code telegram to Sir M. Lampron (Peking),
Foreign Office, 8th June, 1931.
5.50 p.m.
No. 195. (R).
Your telegram No. 259 (of June 6th.
Extraterritoriality negotiations)
I am stating today in answer to a question in
the House of Commons that negotiations have reached
a point which enables them to be reported to respective governments, and that I hope to be able to make a statement shortly.
I shall be obliged in the absence of convincing reason to the contrary to make a statement very soon on results of the negotiations, and if Chinese
Their own object they should furnish the reason.
tactics, e.g. issue of mandate of May 5th have inevitably created a more urgent demand for informa- tion. Please telegraph as soon as possible how much
Doctor Wang would concur in my saying and any
objections he may have to a complete if summary
statement.
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