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COPY OF TELEGRAM.
SECRET.
Resort 23!
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From
c.in c. China.
To--Admiralty.
DATE
7.5.27
SENT
RECD.
0137
Foreign Office Cypher K. (Reayphered).
Addressed Admiralty, repented British Hinister Potin
277.
IMPORTANT.
56. Foreign Office telegrama ?(340)
and 341 to Peking were a bitter disappointment for
all who were more closely soquainted with what has been
going on.
The real sufferers namely Kerohants who trade
on Yangtse who have orated Shanghai and who were
extending British influence in East do not appear to
have been considered at all,
It is now extremely difficult to answer their
continued and legitimate enquiries as to what they
should do whether to hang on at great loss or to out
losses and evacuate. Hitherto I have invariably told
them to hold on at all coste bat unless you can give me
a definite reply that we shall eventually take
sufficiently strong action to impress Chinese in general
that British are not to be trifled with forever which
action in my opinion should be retaking of Hankow
Concession I fed in duty bound to tell British Merchants
the truth as I do not wish to be told afterwar
that I had given them advice which I know was false,
Whilst I realias H.M.Government are dealing with
far larger issues of general policy and that trade in
China may be considered only a small portion of Empi re
I feel justified in emphasising fact that our present
policy will not only result in unredeemable bankruptcies
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