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CHINA
Decypher. Mr. Palairet,
(Peking),
D.
8.45 p.m.
R, 6.55 p.m.
30th June, 1925.
30th June, 1925.
30th June,
1925.
No. 182.
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*AJKU“ ET RİB
Appreciation of the situation in paragraph
1 and 2 of your telegram No. 120 seems to me substantially correct though do not think anti- foreign movement is gathering. If anything it shows signs of slackening. Relations between Feng and Chang remain obscure and neither seems able or willing to attack the other. It is noteworthy that Feng has just issued a most violent manifesto in which he declares himself ready to fight to
the last in the defence of China's rights.
Paragraph 4. At the present stage of negotiation with Chinese Government it is difficult to suggest any useful action or declaration by His Majesty's Government except on lines of my telegram No. 168. If anything occurs to me later
I will permit myself to submit to your consideration.
In the meantime I am doing what I can to counter-
act anti-British propaganda here.
Paragraph 5. Any commission of this kind
would have of course to be international and should
I mentioned certainly not be military in character. the matter casually to my colleagues who did not think the moment had yet come for considering the
situation.
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