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Code telegram to:-
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Tilley. (Tokyo) No. 81. „Howard. (Washington) No.305 Crewe, (Paris) No 292 (5vy Bag
"Granam. (Rôme) No.305.
d. Lindley. (Oslo) No. 22.
ir A. Grant Duff. (Stockholm) No 11.
Tervikter (Copenhagen) No.20. Ting. (ie Hague) No.
me Orügge 3) No 85.
Carnegie, (Lisbon) No. 40
Foreign Office, 22nd December, 1926. 7 Pall.
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Please communicate to the Government to which you are
accredited the text of part 2 of my telegram to Shanghai No. 31 of December 2nd (Telegram section 15456 of December
3rd) as amended below. Annex mentioned in paragraph 12
will be found in China print May 28th, 1926, section 1,
and copy of this should also be communicated.
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Amendments are as follows:-
(Tokyo only).
Here insert modifications suggested in my telegram
No.13 to Mr. Lampson at Hankow.
(Remainder)
Paragraph 7. Delete two sentences after the words "unwilling China and substitute While calling upon China
to maintain that respect for the sanctity of treaties which
is the primary obligation common to all civilised States
the Powers should yet recognise both the essential justice
of the Chinese claim for treaty revision and the diffi-
culty under present conditions of negotiating new treaties
in place of the old and they should therefore modify their traditional attitude of rigid insistence on the strict
letter of treaty rights. During this, etc....*
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