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Hon No.293.
king No.6.8.
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U.23900
29 DEC 06
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
al C.in.C.
C. T.
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Isov 231
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EN. 15243
Geribus
Sir.
HONGKONG.
23 November, 1926.
100
After my secret despatch of the 21st
November was written I received your telegram of
the 20th Notember informing me that you hoped shortly to be able to reply to my secret despatch of the 30th June and stating, with reference to the seventh paragraph of my secret despatch of the 23rd July that His Majesty's Government, while sympathizing with my attitude, must insist that, having regard to the difficulty and delicacy of the Chinese situation in general, British troops should on no account be employed outside the fron- tier of this Colony without specific instructions from His Majesty's Government.
2.
The effect of this instruction can only
be that in the case of all piratical outrages be- yond the waters of this Colony as well as in every case of an outrage on the land frontier of the Colony, no British troops can be used at all. These outrages are always, of course, perpetrated without previous notice; and, when the emergency has arisen, action to be effective must be taken immediately
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.3. AMERY,
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