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CABINET 19 (27)

Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, on Monday, March 28th, 1927, at 11.30.a..

CHINA

(Previous Reference: Cabinet 18 (27) Con- clusion 7.)

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1. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

gave the Cabinet a summary of the most recent

information in regard to developments in China,

and more particularly at Nanking, where several

foreigners had lost their lives, the British

Consulate-General had been sacked and the Consul-

General wounded on the entry of the Cantonese forces.

He referred in particular to a telegram from the Naval

Commander-in-Chief, dated March 27th, raising the

question of retaliatory action over the Nanking

episode, a subject on which he informed the Cabinet

that the American and Japanese Admirals had also

telegraphed to their respective Governments.

Among other matters, Sir Austen Chamberlain

referred to telegraphic correspondence between Sir

Miles Lampson and Mr. Teichman, at Hankow,

regarding the desirability of the evacuation of

British subjects from the Upper Yangtze.

The Secretary of State for the Colonies

read to the Cabinet a series of telegrams he had

exchanged with the Governor of Hong Kong in regard to

a plot to murder the Governor and several other

persons