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2.
Lordship would do what was possible to respond in the spirit in which His Excellency had made his proposal.
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3.
I consider His Majesty's Government and owners would
be well advised to authorise me to accept the Vice-Minister
for Foreign Affairs' offer (without prejudice of course to
our legal rights) because insistence on compensation will
merely lead to further indefinite detention of the two vessels.
4. I should be grateful for an early reply.
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Repeated to Shanghai No. 112, Commander-in-Chief No. 123.
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