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DATE 12th ilay, 1927.
repented to ritish ...inietur retin 9.
2020.
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IMLANDIA VA
Foreign Office Cypher K (reay phered)
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As far as the trade gituation on the Yangtse is concerned,
the position appeare to be that, with the Hunkow Goverment
never firmly established and now tottering, with the appeara no a
of rival governmente elscwhere on the Yangtse and with the
rapid extension of the Civil ar into the Yangtse valley, no
measures we can take can for the present prevent our own or
any other trade from suffering from the resulting chaos.
4.K.Goverument cannot therefore endorse your view the
because owing to the extension of the civil wir along the
Yangtse valley British as well as other foreign and Chineze
trading interests are, as was infioitable, suffering great
injury and inconvenience, it follows that the policy they
have udouted ignores these sufferings which no measures on
their part could prevent, Nor is it a practicable proposition
that trade can be successfly kept alive and healthy by means
of forcible military and naval pro teotion in the heart of a
foreign country.
·
As regards the proposed re-occupation of the ilan kow
Coro eseion by British forces, moreover, it must be reoulled
that you yourself pointed out the injury which mi:ht enrue to
British Trade interests unless it imluded all the valuable
British properties and stores situated outside the cono esɛ ion,
and that you reported that this wis the strongly-held view
of the trading community. To this extended menguro ii.
Covernment were definitely opposed, on military no lese tien
on other grounds. Your reprosentations therefore ponstituted
an additional argument against the re-occupation of the
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