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CHINA.
Code telegram to Sir M. Lampson, (Nanking),
Foreign Office, 4th June, 1931, 6.05 p.m.
No.141. (R). (Tour).
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My telegram No.139. 317
Chinese Minister called to see me today on
instructions from his government to represent that we should agree to make yet one further concession to the Chinese government as regards reserved areas, namely
territory of Tientsin.
I told Mr. Sze that His Majesty's Government could not go beyond the position stated to you in the negot-
iations so far as the reserved areas are concerned.
His Majesty's Government had gone to the greatest lengths to meet the wishes of the Chinese government, and I would ask him to make it clear to his government
that the limit of concession had been reached.