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F 2462

From CHINA.

13 MAR 1939

Decypher.

Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai).

11th March, 1959.

D.

(Via W/T.) 11th March, 1939.

R.

5.17 p.m., 11th March, 1939.

No. 238.

100

I learn from what I believe to be a reliable German

source that Otto Wolff's representative here has been invited

to Chungking by Minister of Communications. Visit is

reported to be connected with negotiation of five year Sino-

German credit arrangement (presumably for the purchase of

materials by China) on guarantee of Bank of China and it is also rumoured that a agents in China are actively working

for renewal of Sino-German Barter Agreement of 1956. I am

asking Mr. Greenway to make discreet enquiries on this point. Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 238 March 11th; repeated to the Mission telegram No. 194 and Tokyo telegram

No. 166.

materials by China) on Gout.

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