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will be willing to provide money in the form of a
loan which will be used by Canton government partly
to finance military expedition against the north and
partly to settle with the strikers.
If consular representative of His Majesty's
Government were to participate in any loan negotiations
we should surely be departing from our hitherto con-
sistently maintained policy (as recently explained in
the House of Commons) of non-intervention in China's
civil wars and of refusing financial or other support
to any Chinese party or individual leader, and we
should be breaking this rule in favour of a group of
bolshevised extremists who throughout the past year
have treated His Majesty's Government and colony of
Hongkong with most violent hostility with avowed objac
of lowering British prestige and destroying British
trade and vested interests in China. See also my belo-
gram No. 133.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 218. Repeated
Hongkong.
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