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(F 12456/3918/10).
LIMITED DISTRIBUTION.
Cypher telegram to Sir A. Clark-Kerr (Shanghai).
Foreign Office, 12th December, 1939. 2. 0 a.m.
No: 1208.
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Your telegram No.1321 [of 1st December:
withdrawal
of gunboats] and Commander-in-Chief's telegram No.336 to Admiralty of 3rd December repeated to R.A.Y.
Please telegraph your observations on the effect of these proposals on the question of te le graphic communi- cations with Chungking. Apart from naval wireless, what means of communication exist, and are you satisfied that these will be adequate, bearing in mind that occasional absences of "Falcon" may cause delays in messages for
Diplomatic Mission?
Repeated to Commander-in-Chief Chungking No.180.
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