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POSTAGRAM or MESSAGE (Delete as
R WAR REGISTRY USE ONLY.
necessary)
PASS TO :-
ADDRESSED
The Commander-in-Chief, China.
Repeated: R.A. Yangtse.
H.M. Ambassador, Shanghai. H.M. Ambassador, Tokyo.
OUT.
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DATE 30. 11. 39.
SENT
Cypher or Confidential Code or Non-Confidential Code or Plain Language
From Admiralty.
F12329/3918/10
Delete as necessary.
My 0952/30, gunboats in Japanese controlled waters
of Yangtse may now be withdrawn as convenient. H.M.S.
PETEREL should, if convenient, be first to be withdrawn.
Request you will report withdrawal dates in advance.
You should inform Ambassadors Shanghai and Tokyo
Notification ba 6 when you propose to notify Japanese. You shou
shuala stat Japanese that while H.M. Government cannot admit that any
consideration of international law relating to Chinese
neutrality overrides treaty right to maintain gunboats on
Yangtse, they propose in view of requirements elsewhere to
withdraw according to convenience.
simultaneously informed of decision.
Italians should be
Head of H.
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