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1939
RegistryF 13033/3361/
Number
FROM
10 Colo nial Office
F
CHINA
F15055
200
28 DEC 1930
Chinese warships in Hong Kong harbour.
Refers to Foreign Office letter of 1st July
(F 6330/3361/10) Transmits copy of Hong Kong despatch
No. 86 to Shanghai reporting that Japanese have raised the question of disarming the Chinese warships and that in view of present circumstances it appears difficult to refuse. Encloses descriptive particulars of the three vessels and proposes that Chinese Duled 27th Dec : 1939. |Government should be requested to order officers in
charge to disarm as specified.
(Copy:
No. 7230/1/39
Receiveistry} 28th Dec :
in
F: China.
1939.
:
Admiralty, War Office.)
(Action
Last Paper.
FIBO14
References.
(Print.)
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completed.)
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94/460
Index.)
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Next Paper.
= 177/147/10/60
(Minutes.)
Figg885918/10.
In his telegram No. 1397 (about gunboats on the Upper Yangtze) Su A. Clark Kerr Staked that he had hesitated to act on
wa
д
the Governor's suggestion until he was in a position to inform the Ch Goot of Huss intention to las up
one or two the gunboats on the upper River was done on 25th December and the was is therefore
15 act.
now clear
for
Though there is legally
this
Su A. Clark Kerr
no state
war between China and Japan these Chineze gunboats have already been over 25 years in Hong Kong, and this situation cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. I do not
aus
think however that
instructions 15 Sn A. Clark Kerr in the matter are
No showin ཐ
Gen". Dept
20009 9/39 F.0.1.
required.
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