CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12] — Page 467

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Powers for t: bencfia of Peking. Will the

provinces in the altered circumstances stand this?

Will it not provoke a direct attack on the customs

to be followed by a similar attack on the salt and

even on the whole system of extraterritoriality?

We are fully alive to the dangers of the proposed

change of policy which you rightly fear but is not

this a far greater dangerî If we are to abandon the

precent proposal you do not tell us how to guard against such a danger? Or do you consider we are

roatly overestimating danger? If so, give reasons so that we may finally decide whether or not to

pursue this idea further.

Further telegram follows giving our views at

greater length.

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