CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 72

This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should he returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official fuss.

CHINA.

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10 DEC 1926

De cypher. H.'s Consul-General. (Shanghai)

1926.

December 4th,

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y telegram No. 33, lact paragraph.

Following from Mr. Lempson: -

Results of taking a lead are already apparent.

Saburi left yesterday for lankow and Meyer now has

instructions to do likewise. Meanwhile am 1 right

in enunciating the doctrine, as I have already done,

that whatever the exact legal interpretation of

ashington treaty may be we do not read it as meaning international guarantee against internal disruption and that recognition of the south is thereby debarred?

I have stated the opinion that obviously only the

extermination of aggression was in contemplation.

I leave tonight after wonderful reception by british community and cordial entertainment by

Chinese businessmen, by American Chamber of Commerce,

and by Japanese mill-owners association.

Addressed to Foreign Office. Repeated to Peking,

Tokyo, Canton and Hongkong.