CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 773

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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. F 3033/2/10.

and address

not to any person by name,

but to-

*The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, B.W.1.

C.O.

32698 FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

10 JUL 20

17th July 1925.

762

sir,

Gu

In reply to your letter No 30695/25 of the 9th

instant regarding the request of the Tuchun of Yunnan

for British support in the present civil conflict in

China, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to

inform you that he concurs in the terms of the proposed

telegram to the Governor of Hongkong to the effect that His Majesty's Government adhere to the view that the

foreign Powers should not depart from their attitude

of neutrality in Chinese internal politics unless and

until the situation become a so threatening as to compel

re course to armed intervention as the sole means of

protecting the lives and property of their nationals.

2. As regards the statement that the Tuchun of

Yunnan is already receiving a substantial measure of support from the French Government, Mr. Chamberlain has no knowledge that the French Government are affording him any special support in connection with the present

Chine se disorders.

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

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