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Sir M. Lampson, (Peking).
20th June 1928.
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3.55 p.m. 20th June 1923.
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9.0 a.li. 21st June 1923.
No. 638. (R).
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Your telegram No.146.
None of the three Chinese you refer to are now in
Peking. Wang has gone to America for an indefinite stay,
Ting is a refugce in, I believe, Dairen, and Hu Shih
would not, I fear, be at all inclined to emerge from his
political retirement in Shanghai.
Under these circumstances I find myself unable to
carry out your instructions, at any rate as regards these
three men, who I gather, you have selected in their capa-
city as members of Willingdon commission duly appointed by
His Majesty's Government as such. I am in doubt whether
others not so qualified could fill the necessary statutory
rôle.
If you see no objection to three other Chinese being
appointed as a sub-committee I can of course set about
finding them, but in that case it will be necessary for me
to approach Nanking government and ask them to nominate
three suitable men.I should not mind doing so as it would
be merely de facto transaction not implying recognition
but there is of course the danger that the Nationalist
government might take advantage of my approaching them
to cuggest immediate establishment of board of trustees
by means of a mandate which might place His Majesty's
Government in an awkward position. It is true that
board
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