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which the officer Commanding Shanghai Volunteers
was quoted as stating that no emergency now
existed at Shanghai.
The Secretary of State for the Colonkes
reported that he had information to the effect
that the Governor of Hong Kong felt some anxiety
owing to the efforts of the Cantonese to stir up
trouble in that Colony, and would be glad of
Additional troops in Hong Kong.
The Cabinet agreed --
(a) To postpone consideration of Mr.O'Malley's
telegram No.36 until the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs should ask for
the question to be discussed;
(6) That the Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment due shortly at Hong Kong en route to
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Shanghai, should be disembarked at Hong
Kong, and the Indian Battalion already at
Shanghai should remain there;·
That a decision regarding the destination
of the Indian Mixed Brigade, the first
units of which are due shortly at Singapore
should be reserved for a few days pending
developments:
(a)
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