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4.

To sum up, essential point to keep stead- fastly in mind, as I see things at present, is that the South wants something tangible to show their own party something as an earnest that we are

serious and mean business: and by continuing con-

versations we might be able to find that something

for them.

Addressed to Foreign Office No. 28. Repeated to Peking, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hongkong

and Canton.

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