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From CHINA.
Decypher.
Sir M. Lampson (Nanking via Peking) 15th April 1930.
D.
R.
11.55 a.m.
9.00 a.m.
16th April 1930.
16th April 1930.
No. 104.
My telegram No. 154 (from Peking).
On further consideration I shall take no steps vis-à-vis Maze or anyone else until I hear that His Majesty's Government have definitely decided since receipt of the above mentioned telegram that they want some customs agreement between Hongkong and China. I am still not clear myself what we stand to gain thereby. On the other hand Kuomintang activities in this country make one more than ever chary of supporting any step which might uptimately strengthen the irredentist claim to Hongkong.
Agreement should in any case surely be between.. His Majesty's Government and China: not between
the latter and Hongkong.
Addressed to Foreign Office, repeated to Poking and Hongkong.
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