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action themselves.

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The Hongkong Government adhered

nevertheless to the principle of the landing of a

military force and the datation of houses and

oraft.

The C-in-C., howɛver, remained opposed to

further action at the present time on shere at Bias

Bay and repeated his aversion to the shelsonle des-

trustion of villages, a view which tallied with my

own feeling on the sund jeat.

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ir, ruman, whêm I had meantims consulted.

agreed with the C-in-C, and myself that further land

operations ngsinat Dâns My were undesirable in prem

In his ense, the view WRA

grounded on the syinion that anch operations would be

licely to cause further anti-British agitation ami

boycott. As an alternative, he again put forward a

suggestion, made earlier in the year, that the bast

form of action was te sṣation a warship sentimously

in Sina Bay.

funo

B. At shia junsture the idam of some form of

international cooperation was revived by the Beniar

Kinister as a meeting of the Diplomatie Body en

Tovember 16th. Monsieur Gudendijk observed that most

of the representatives had expressed their views in reply to his ciresiar of September Elst and it romain-

od to decide what nation, if any, was possible.

#shambat difrume disenssion which fellowed showed that

the only hope of progross lay in referring the matter

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