Office of the Historian

893.00/6455

The British Chargé (Chilton) to the Secretary of State

Manchester, Mass., July 27, 1925.
[Received July 29.]
No. 712

Sir: I have the honour to refer to recent correspondence on the situation in China and to inform you that, according to reports which have reached His Majesty’s Government, the position has eased to some extent and there is less cause for anxiety than during the first half of the present month. In these circumstances, His Majesty’s Government have taken no special precautionary measures beyond despatching H. M. Aircraft Carrier Hermes to Hong Kong with the necessary complement of aeroplanes.

I have [etc.]

H. G. Chilton