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Cypher telegram to Sir M. Lampson.

(Peking).

Foreign Office.

No. 626.

November 23rd, 1927. 7.0 p.m.

Your telegram No. 50 of June 2nd (Boxer Indemnity).

I should be glad to have your views as to our

general Boxer Indemnity policy. My own opinion still

is that this question like that of Hankow concession

is fundamental to our future relations with China,

that we must pursue when opportunity offers the

course to which we are committed and that any divert-

ing or the funds to purely British purposes would be

a retrograde step and expose us to a charge of bad

faith; but there is a growing opinion here in favour

of a reve Bal policy.

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