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Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street on wednesday, February 2nd, 1927, at 11.30 a.m.

CHINA

INDEMNITY BILL

(Previous Reference: Cabinet ol (26) Con- clusion 5)

The Secretary of State for Foreign.

Affairs drew the attention of the Cabinet to a

telegram from Sir Miles Lampson, No.220, dated February 1st, in which the British Minister at Peking urged strongly the enactment of the China Indemnity Bill. Notwithstanding that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary had recently been authorised to inform the Committee of Home Affairs that the Foreign Office would not press for this Bill to be introduced in the following Session, Sir Austen Chamberlain warned his colleagues tnat, in viewof Sir Miles Lampson's

telegram, it might be necessary for him to raise the

question.