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TELEGRAM.
OUT
No. 817.
From ADMIRALTY.
DATE
To
12th Day, 1947.
0. in C. China. 817.
repeated to British Minister Petin. 5.
SENT
1822.
Corry for
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Foreign Office Wypher « (redyphered)
Be your C011/7. From Hie Lajesty's dorcrument, bėgine :
His lajnaty's Covernment, recognising the great
responsibiliw which nrosesarily falls upon you là the
execution of the policy on which they have tesevmined, and
desiring to give you all the resistange in their sower, think
that the following expletions of its puzness wê me thoda and methods
may be hal ful to you,
This policy was conceived and adopted not as a temporary
measure, o at as laying the foundation for the line of action
by which it is hoped that the eventual solution of the
difflauities whion U.m.GOV Orient are experiencing is their
relations with chins during the recent phase of that country'e
evolution will be reobad, How long it will tate for this
molution to Je revlised must næossuar ly depend upon the
course of events in China.
The polloy of Rs.covernment is founded on their desire
to maintain se for as possible for the present, and more
capecially to preserve for the faturs the great trading
intereste which the enterprise of British firms and companies
bus developed throughout Chans. So for from being ignored
Governmeut, the interests of trade are the main and
Taeced apert from the motretiar of life, the sole interacts
ej 1.4.beremmast in kiral It was for this ream n that
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ther deepatobci the Thanghai Defence Force for protective a d
defensive purposes to that port where the most vilal British
trade interests are alfeated,
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