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ΤΟ CHINA
Code telegram to Mr. Ingram (Peking)
Foreign Office, 4th February 1950, 6.45 p.m.
No. 34. (R).
Sir M. Lampson's despatch No. 1789 (of 12th
December: protection of British ships in China
against piracy).
Representatives of interested Companies have approached Prime Minister on the subject and reply has been returned briefly reviewing recent history
of question and saying that after again fully and carefully reviewing position His Majesty's Government have decided that British military guards will not be supplied after March next, and consider companies should implement the advice given to them last August and take their own steps for the protec- tion of their vessels against internal attacks.
that the
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