CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10] — Page 404

Mr.

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Downing Street,

385

16 December, 1926.

Mr. Strachey.

Sir J. Shuckburgh,

Sir G. Grindle. /↳

Sir,

Sir C. Davis.

VNær S. Wilson

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Earl of Clarendon.

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

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I am directed by Mr. Secretery

Amery to acknowledre the receipt of your

letter No. F 3476/3476/10 of the 24th

November forwarding a copy of a memoran-

dum prepared by the Chinese Counsellor

to His Majesty's Legation Peking, on

the subiect of the recognition of

provincial Governments in China.

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2.

Mr. Amery appreciates the argu-

tents adduced against the suggestion

that His Majesty's Cover.ment should

take the initiative in offering terms

to recognise t'e/independence of the

provincial or regional authorities in

China. I er to observe however that

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