CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 459

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My Lord,

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FO REION JFFICE, 5.1.1.

17th October, 1922,

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I have received a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, copy of which is enclosed,

relative

to the withdrawal of foreign post offices from China before January 1st, 1923, in accordance with the resolution to that effect adopted unanimously, on February 1st, 1928, at the fifth Plenary Session of the Fashington Conference. 8. Asting on that resolution, His Majesty's Government have made all preparations for withdrawing British post offices from China by the agreed date.

3. Speaking, at the Sub-Committee of the Heads of Delegations at Fashington on February 3rd, 1922, in elucida- tion of the point as to whether resolutions of thỉ qonference

M ecording required ratification, Monsieur Kammerer stated,

to French law only those resolutions would have to be ratified which contained matters pertaining to financial changes, or any resolution requiring new legislation. If matters of polisy only were involved, the Cabinet had full power to sat

He had carefully examined subject only to interpellation.

these resolutions and had found that they could be accepted," (See Washington Conference Print Volume II, page 1091).

4. This statement appears to contradict the opinion

of the French Minister at Peking, and to leuve no doubt that the French Government are in a position to carry out the terms of the resolution without further demar.

He Excellency

The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, K.G., G.G.B.,

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