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referred to in Faragraph 3 should deal with the

gration of assurgoes in the following manneri -

You might state that His haj esty's GovermSAT

had come to the conclusion that attempts to lay

down aonditions or to formulate any more precise

assurances might lead to difficult and even

contentious discussions and might deprive the act

of returning the indemnity of that friendly and

generous character which they were most anxious

that it should beɛrj that the communications

which had been exchanged upon this subject had

satified them that the Chinese Government were

ready to respond to this gesture in the same

friendly and generous spirit in which it wer

m:de; and that they would therefore be content

further

to waive any futurs discussion of this point.

Please telegraph your observations.

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