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persons by means of emissaries sent from Canton, and

other matters.

Several other questions were raised.

In the course of the discussion the Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs was asked to take any

favourable opportunity that might offer, in Parliament

or otherwise, for giving the widest publicity to an

official communication which had already appeared in "The

Daily Telegraph" to the effect that, Shanghai being an

International Settlement, it cannot form the subject of a

separate agreement between Great Britain and the

Cantonese Government, as in the case of Hankow.

agreed

As the result of the discussion, the Cabinet

(a) To take note that, in view of the very grave issues

involved in the major question of the attitude to be

taken up in regard to events at Nanking, including the

question of the evacuation of British subjects from

the Upper Yangt se, the Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs was not yet in a position to advise, but that

he would bring the question before the Cabinet on the

receipt of an appreciation for which he had already

called from Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister at

Peking, who had been instructed firstto consult his

United States and Japanese colleagues (Telegram No.213,

Peking, dated March 27th):

(b)