In my comment 567 to Admiralty on H.M. Ambassador Tokyo's telegram 1187 to Foreign office I stated (with reference to south China Coast generally) that "the suggestion that Japanese Naval Authorities

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Cypher telegram to Sir A. Clark Kerr, (Shanghai).

Foreign Office.

No. 1205.

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Your telegram No. 1313 [of the 30th November:

Notification to Japanese of particulars of British property in China].

Before reaching a decision on this matter, I shall be grateful

to learn what procedure has been followed by the French and United

States Governments.

Repeated to Tokyo No. 845.

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