CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928 — Page 113

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From CHINA.

Sir M. Lampson (Peking).

18th April, 1929.

113

D.

6.11 p.m.

18th April, 1928.

R.

9.00 p.m. 20th April, 1928.

No. 317. (R).

Addressed to Hongkong No. 54.

Your telegram No. 12 end your despatch of

March 17th.

I have throughout laid stress here on our

attitude of strict neutrality which Northerners

now understand and regard as reasonable: it would

place me in a false position if we went back on

that now. Handing over office to charge of a

Canton merchant in Hongkong as representative of

Kwangtung government is incompatible with that

attitude and is certainly quite different from

course we discussed and which I agreed to when in

Hongkong namely closing of office or handing over

to cable companies to work temporarily on behalf

of all concerned.

Please repeat to Cant on.

Repeated to Foreign Office No. 317.