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F1265741
13 DEC 1939
SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET,
From CHINA.
Decypher.
Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai)
13th December, 1959.
D.
11.44 8..,
13th December, 1939.
R.
5.30 a.m., 13th December, 1959.
No. 1565.
*
螨
not get read
IMMEDIATE.
My telegram No. 1362.
12644
In view of Admiralty telegram to Commander-in-Chief No. 152
Shanghai communicated to me at 9.50 a.1. [grp. findec.] time today,
i.e., half hour before notifications were apparently being made
to the press in Tokyo and London, I had no choice but to instruct
F12538 Chungking to act in accordance with your telegram No. 1209 to me.
Addressed to Foreign Office, repeated to Tokyo telegram
No. 814, Commander-in-Chief telegram No. 595 and Rear-Admiral
Yangtze telegram No. 121.
5.
13
DEC
2.0. REL
1939
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