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1939
Registry 11752/3918/10 Number
FROM Chungking
Mission.
No.
39
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F
F 11752
317
10 NOV 1939
Japanese request for withdrawal of British troops and warships from China.
Refers to Shanghai telegram no.119 (F 10595/3918/10) Encloses minutes of interview between His Majesty's Ambassador and Minister for Foreign Affairs at Chungking on 11th October at which Me. Wang referred to withdrawal of five gunboats and asked for information as to intention of His Majesty's Government regarding remainder of British forces in China, and Ambassador replied that decision to withdraw gunboats was taken in Registry 10th Nov. 1939 because some of the vessels and all personnel were
Dated 18th Oct. 1939
Received
F
China.
Last Paper.
F1135
References.
(Print.)
(How disposed of.)
F14 Adzrly
No 25
required elsewhere and that there was no immediate intention of withdrawing remainder of gunboats or military forces. Copied Commander in Chief 4, Tokyo 1.
(Minutes.)
copy wod. + Admiralty.
(Sin & Clark Kerr's statement that
A
"there was no
no immediate intention
the remainder of the gunboats
" was stricts conec
withdrawing
military forces
the
but it wal
or
followed about three weeks Cater by the announcement to reduce the T's'in garrison and will shorts be followed by further withdrawal If gunboats).
Sir J. Bran
Au Scot 18711
a
(Action completed,)
25/4/2
(Index.)
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Ashley Clarke;
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