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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.. 1.
17th March, 1939.
Dear Chancery,
In Foreign Office despatch No. 385 of the 17th
February ( 1574/186/10), it was stated that no useful
purpose would be served by sending a British warship to
Hainan, and a reply in this sense was sent to the French
Embassy here.
2. It now appears that we omitted to repeat our
telegram No. 88 to Tokyo to the Commander-in-Chief of the
China Station, and as the Admiralty also apparently sent
no instructions, Admiral Noble, with whom the responsibility
rests for movements of ships in Far Eastern waters, actually
sent H.M.9. "Tenedos" on two occasions to Hainan.
3. It is a little difficult satisfactorily to
explain away our apparent inconsistency to the French, but
we have told the Embassy here that our reply to them was
intended to indicate that is ajesty's Government would
be averse from the more or less permanent stationing of
The Chancery,
British Embassy,
Paris.
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