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vent to issue a manifesto on the subject, copy of which

attached (enclosure No.1) calling upon the foreign

owers to withhold recognition from Peking until a

presentative Government is established. At about the

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me time, same towards the end of June, the Chinese

charts of Shanghai met and passed a resolution denouncing

Be Peking Government as illegal; but in this connection

i must be borne in mind that Shanghai is in the hands of

blitical opponents of the Chihli Farty, The desirability

or otherwise of withdrawing recognition from the Peking

Government has been discussed in telegrame exchanged

with Your Lordship in connection with the Linch eng

ttlement. The objection to such a course of action

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are sufficiently obvious, as for instance the absence

or any conteal body whom we could hold even nominally

rsonalble for the carrying out of China's Treaty and

Lan obligations, while it would be as likely to hasten

kisintegration as to promote unification and stabilisa-

Gion of Government. The question is, however, unfortunat é-

By likely to come to the fore again if conditions continue

Lo deter forete, and it may therefore be useful to examine

Briefly the claims of the Peking Administration to be re-

nised as the Central Government of China, as far as

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