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concerned is that the present in not an opportune moment

for altering the existing arrangement, since the

atmosphere at Canton seems to have cleared a little.

(The C.-in C. in his telegram at 37 even expresses

Peal

the hope of the river being open to trade in

April.)

These subsequent developments now render our

letter to the Foreign Office at 30 out of date; and

we should ? now write to the Foreign Office,

referring to 30, and saying that in view of 36 the

S. of S. does not consider it necessary to send a

reply to the Governor's despatch at 28, until some-

thing further has been received from Hong Kong,

(presumably the Governor will inform us of what has

taken place subsequent to No. 28.)

A.N. Galswortly

18.3.39.

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