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CHINA.
(F 649/8/10)
Code telegram to Mr. Ingram (Peking)
Foreign Office, 4th February 1930, 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
that the 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.
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