793.00/93
The British Chargé (Chilton) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 21.]
Sir: I have the honour to refer to my immediately preceding notes regarding the reply to be returned by the Diplomatic Body at Peking to the representations addressed to them by the Chinese Government on June 24th last.
His Majesty’s Government now inform me that the Italian proposal, to which reference was made in paragraph two of my note No. 701, is that the identic reply by the Powers to the above-mentioned Chinese representations should embody and itself constitute the public declaration previously suggested by His Majesty’s Government.
I have [etc.]