In this context, I should like to
refer to the sacking and burning by a
mob at Canton on the 16th January of
His Majesty's Consulate General and
adjacent British property. This is of
course intrinsically a separate issue,
but it occurred because of the press
misrepresentations about the Kowloon
affair to which I have referred above
and, as you may imagine, it is one to
which His Majesty's Government attach
the greatest importance. It would
indeed be a generous gesture and would
establish relations between our two
countries on a really solid basis of
cordiality, if the Chinese Government
were to lose no time in offering a
really satisfactory settlement of this
unhappy affair. Perhaps, by the time
this reaches you, that may already have
been done.
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