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From CHINA.
De code.
Mr. Newton, (Peking),
March 22nd 1928.
D.
10.00 p.m.
March 22nd 1928.
R.
9.50 a.m.
March 23rd 1928.
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No. 229. (R).
Addressed to Hongkong No.42.
Chinese telegraph office in Hongkong.
General Isao, Yang Tu-ting's confidential agent and
representative of the Wai Chiao-pu, called March 21st
to request me to telegraph to you to retain Lau in office.
I told him that in view of all that had gone before it
was useless for me to do so and I explained again the
reasons why you had to maintain a strictly impartial
attitude and were therefore constrained either to close
the office or to hand it over to the cable companies to
work on behalf of the Chinese authorities concerned,
pending an agreement between North and South.
Tsao knew very little about the subject, though he
remembered discussing it with you, and went away apparent-
more or less satisfied.
Later, however, he telephoned to say that Yang had
made no comment on the above explanation of your attitude,
but had instructed him to enquire urgently about report
which had been received that negotiations between Hong-
kong and Canton had been proceeding and were on the
point of completion for handing over control of the
office to a nominee of the Centon authorities;
Chang Teo-lin was extremely perturbed at this report.
Marshal
Repeated to Shanghai for is Majesty's Minister
No. 109, and Foreign Office.
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