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(b) That the proposals of the Governor of Hong Kong in
favour of representations, supported by threats of
retaliatory action, being made to the Cantonese
Goverment at Hankow and at Canton in regard to the stirring
up of sedition, intimidation and murder at Hong Kong, should
stand over for consideration in conjunction with the larger
questions of policy arising out of events at Nanking:
(c) That in reply to a secret telegram from the Governor of
Hong Kong, dated March 26, 1927, asking for authority to give
an assurance to the "District Watchmen Committee"
meeting at Government House on March 30th, the Secretary of
State for the Colonies should have authority to send a
telegram, the text of which he should concert with the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, authorising the
Governor to assure the Committee and the Colony that His
Majesty's Government will give the fullest protection to
Hong Kong and its mainland territory during the civil war now
unhappily raging in China, and that they have no intention of
surrendering Hong Kong or of abandoning or diminishing in any
way its rights or authority in the adjacent mainland
territory under British administration:
(a) That the First Lord of the Admiralty should inform the
Naval Commander in Chief, China Station, that he should have
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