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CHINA.
De cypher.
Mr. Jamieson (Tientsin).
June 14th 1939.
D.
Wireless.
June 15th 1939.
R.
9.30 a. m.
June 15th 1939.
No.226.
IMMEDIATE.
62, Your telegram No.53.
With regard to the 1st paragraph my [? grp, omtd] and that of my advisers has always been that it would be most improper when a crime has been committed to allow the accused to escape the ordinary consequences of his crime on the ground that the crime was committed for political motives;
in other words a
person who is accused of having committed murder cannot plead special treatment because he had committed that murder as a patriotic act either of his own will or under the orders of the
If therefore warrant is received disclosing Chinese Government.
a proper criminal charge, i.e. murder that warrant would be executed in the normal manner unless it were palpably obvious that the charge merely camouflaged arrest for other reasons. normal times the practice in such cases was to hold up the warrant, procedure which formerly the Chinese were not strong Alternatively a hint could be given before enough to resist.
the warrant was executed.
2.
In
As regards that part of your telegram which deals with the beginning part of my telegram No.214 Your Lordship is correct
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in assuming that the information given therein was in amplification
of
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