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CILLA
(F 4144/1/10)
Cypher telegram to Sir R. Macleay,
(Peking)
7.p.m.
Foreign Office, 5th October, 1926.
No. 282.
316*
Shanghai telegrams Nos. 67 and 68.
It is important that Sir 3. Barton should
continue to impress upon Sun Chuan Fang that we
are determined not to support any of the factions
in China's civil wars and that there is nothing
umeutral in our attitude towards the proposed new
Canton taxes. Both Sun Chuan Fang and the British
mercantile community at Shanghai appear to be under
the misapprehension that we are offering surtaxes
to Canton as a concession in return for the calling
off of the boycott. You should therefore repeat
to Shanghai my telegrams Nos. 275 and 277 which, with
my telegram No. 272, will show that the true posi-
tion is that as it has proved impossible for His
Majesty's Goverment isolated and single-handed, to
check the violent and illegal exactions of the
Strike Committee, they are at present adopting a
passive attitude towards the Canton government's
proposal to substitute therefore a regular and not
very onerous tax. We will however probably be
prepared in principle and subject of course to
further
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