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(F 48/48/10).

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RECEIVED

9JAN 1930

FOREIGN

OFFICE, S.W.1.

OOL, OFFIOR

8th January, 1930.

Dear Edgcumbe,

62889/29

(་q)

Many thanks for your letter of the 31st

December, regarding the proposal that periodical

conferences should be arranged between the principal

British authorities in China.

Mr. Henderson is wholly in favour of the

proposal, in principle, but the practical difficulties

are so formidable that it is hard to see what more can

be decided than has already been settled in the recent

official correspondence on the subject. At the same

time if Lord Passfield thinks that it would be useful

to consider the question at a conference between repre-

sentatives of the interested departments he is

perfectly ready to agree to one.

Yours sincerely,

J. A. P.Edgcumbe, Esq., C.M.G.,

C.B.E.

Alflings.

Pa

Fage

Pa

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