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CHINA
Decypher and Decode. Mr. Lampson, (Hankow).
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12th December 1926.
D. 2.40 a.m. 13th December 1926.
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R. 9.0 a.m. 13th December 1926.
Nos.13 and 14.
I PORTANT.
My telegram 30.7..
I had a further interview with Chen on December 12th
lasting two hours with Davidson present for the first time,
In response to my enquiry whether he had evolved an
alternative for the second half of recognition formula hạ said that owing to numerous functions now taking place he
had been unable to consult the other members of his government, but later on he produced a suggested wording which he emphasized was to be taken as a purely personal effort of his own.
Text is as follows.
(R begins).
British Government are prepared to recognise Nationalist government of China in respect of territory latter now control, and which they may further control. But it is understood that this recognition of Nationalist covernment shall not serve as a precedent as long as existing status quo is not altered in sense of emergence of conditions calculated to postpone indefinitely the establishment of a Central goverment of the whole of China. Rende).
Wording of this is so involved as to make it almost meaningless and hardly worth seriously considering, but
its
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