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that I regard the fixing of any time limit now for extraterritoriality in Shanghai as definitely in that sense a rope round neck of the Settlement and as fatal to the future prospects of local self government. I am writing and sending you material which should reach Nanking on Sunday morning.
Ends.
I understand part II of Feetham's report will ap- pear in second week of June. I have no knowledge of its contents and cannot comment on above opinion.
Repeated to Poking No. 56 and Foreign Office No.
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