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TO CHINA
Cypher telegram to Sir M. Lampson (Nanking).
Foreign Office, 21st April, 1931. 10 p.m.
No. 69. (Tour)
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Your telegram No. 113 to Sir V. Wellesley was brought to my notice this evening just before I received the Chinese Minister who had asked me to see him.
The Minister said he was instructed by his Government to urge me to agree to waive the claims put forward by His Majesty's Government in respect of Hankow, Cant cn and Tientsin. I demurred as strongly as I could to this, repeating to Dr. Sze the arguments I had used at our last interview and bearing in mind what
I said that you said in your telegram under reference. His Majesty's Government was as anxious as ever that an equitable settlement should be reached with the least
possible delay and I requested the Minister to urge Dr. Wang without further attempts at bargaining to put to you at once some final and definitive offer on the part of the Chinese Government. I said that if you felt that you were not already empowered by your instructions to accept Dr. Wang's terms, you would refer back to me and I would issue the final instructions of His Majesty'
Government
Dr. Sze promised to inform his Government of what
I had said.
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