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Note 1.
When communicating these proposals to Mr. Chen at Hankow on the 27th January Mr. O'Malley prefaced them with the following paragraph
"When a satisfactory settlement has been reached in respect to the British concessions at Hankow and Kiukiang, and when assurances have been given] by the Nationalist Government that they will not countenance any alteration except by negotiation of the status of the British concessions and international settle- ments, His Majesty's Government will be prepared to concede at once and on the lines indicated in the enclosure hereto a part of what is desired of them by the Chinese Nationalist party. So liberal and generous a step cannot in their view be regarded otherwise than as an earnest of the fair and conciliatory spirit with which they are animated."
Note 2.
The words in italics in paragraph 6 were omitted from Mr. Lampson's communication to Dr. Koo.
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