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SECRET.

14 September 1927

30045/27.

sir.

Secret

28.May

With reference to your letter S/1/13 of the 14th of March forwarding an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence held on the 4th of March 1927, regarding the possi- bility of exerting economic pressure on the Nationalist Government of South China, I am directed to trenmmit to you, for the information of the Committee of Imperial Defence, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a memorandum setting out the views of the Hong Kong General

Defence Committee on the matter.

2. The Trade and Blockade Advisory Committee

will doubtless be asked to consider the problem

again when the views of the Naval Commander-in-Chief

and

THE SECRETARY,

COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

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