APPENDIX III.
Cypher telegram to Mr. Lampson (Peking)
Foreign Office
February 4th 1927,7.30.p.m.
143
Nal06 and 107.
STATE
Firat troopship arrives at Hong Kong on Sunday
6th instant. Itis therefore necessary to take at once
the decision as to the disposal of troops which you
propose to defer till their arrival in Far Eastern water:
Our present information leaves us in some doubt ng to
actual position at Shanghai. Danger of violent out-
breaks secno less imminent than when our troop movements
were ordered, and in any case there is one additional
battalion already at Shanghai.
Views expressed by Earon Shidehara in Tokio
telegram No.61 and Washington telegram No.68 require
careful consideration.
In these circumstances report
urgently your views on following alternative suggestions
and make any other proposals which you think preferable.
Chen might be informed that Hi:
First alternative
Majesty's Government are unable to arrest the
movement already in progress in present complete
uncertainty as to the intentions of the Nationalist
goverment and in the absence of any undertaking that
they will settle all differences by friendly
negotiation and will discountenance any resort to armed
force or mcb violence or boycott which inevitably gives
rise to violence, but that if before the troops reach
Shanghai Chen has signed the agreement already reached
between himself and O'Malley (with any minor
modifications approved by O'Malley) and gives on behalf
of the Nationalist government & definite wirtten
assurance that they will not attack Shanghai or any
other settlement and will discourage and do their best t
prevent mob violence and other aggressive measures
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