Includes: minutes of statements made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary; Lord Balfour, Lord President of the Council; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War; Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] Secretary of State for Air; and William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty on the situation in China.Also present: a report by the Chiefs of Staff on the situation in China and sanctions; observations by George Mounsey, Arthur Ransome and [6th] Lord Gort [earlier James Vereker]; a memorandum by Bridgeman on cruisers in China; copies of telegrams between the Foreign Office and Sir Miles Lampson [later 1st Lord Killearn, British Minister to China], [Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt] Commander in Chief, China; a report on the British forces in China; a paper on British financial interests in China; a copy of a letter from WSC to [1st Lord Beatty] on Bolshevism in China and events at Nanking and Hankow.