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From CHINA.
Decypher.
Sir M. Lampson (Nanking via Peking.
15th April 1980.
D.
11.55 a.m.
16th April 1930.
R.
9.00 a.m.
16th April 1930.
No. 104.
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My telegram No. 154 (Prom 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 cince
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 uptimatoly
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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