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SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET.
To: JAPAN.
Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).
Foreign Office.
No. 847.
IMPORTANT.
December 12th, 1939.
6.0.a.m.
Rear Admiral Yangtze's telegram No. 727 to Admiralty (of 10th December: withdrawal of gunboats from Yangtze].
You may make informal notification to Government to which you are accredited, to coincide with Rear Admiral Yangtze's announcement to Japanese. No mention should however be made of gunboats in free
China for the present.
Repeated Shanghai No. 1210, Commander-in-Chief, Mission Chungking
No. 182.
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