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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HIS Majesty's

Representative

at Tokyo

presents his compliments to The Secretary of State for Foreign and has the honour to transmit to him the under-mentioned documents.

Affairs

British

Embassy

193

Tokyo

26th January..., 193.9

Reference to previous correspondence:

Name and Date.

Description of Enclosure 2149

From Military Attaché

Report No. 1 of 13th

January, 1939.

Subject.

3 MAR 1939

Situation in Hongkong.

Copied to:

Shanghai No. 24. Hongkong No.

o. 2.

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