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SECRET

CABINET 35(27)

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Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting of the Cabinet held on the

1st June at 11.30 a.m.

CHINA

(Previous Reference Cabinet 34

(27), Con- clusion 2).

Peking and Tientsin

3.

The Cabinet had before them the Conclusions of the

Second Meeting of the Cabinet Committee on China,

relative to

-

(1) The policy of the Government in regard to Peking

and Tientsin:

and

(ii) The proposed withdrawal of Indian troops.

(Paper C.P.167(27)

As regards Peking and Tientsin, the Cabinet

took note of and approved action already taken on

the following decisions of the Committee:-

a) That Sir Miles Lampson should be informed tht, in

the view of His Majesty's Government, there was, a

present information, no necessity to evacuate British subjects or His Majesty's Legation from Peking: (b) That General Duncan should be authorised to

despatch, on demand by the Colonel Commandant,

North China, one Battalion from Shanghai to Tientsin

or at Peking as might be required:

(c) That General Duncan should be instructed to

proceed