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SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET
From CHINA.
Decypher. Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai).
No.1414.
D. 5.44 p.m.
R. 11.45 a.m.
December 28th 1959.
December 28th 1939.
December 28th 1939.
IMPORTANT.
Your telegram No.1252.
7.12933/3918/10
We propose notification should be made January 2nd in London at 10 a.m. G.M.T. and at Shanghai 4.p.m. local time. I assume announcement should be confined to bare fact
of decision to lay up two gun-boats on Upper River.
Repeated to Diplomatic Mission Chungking 674, Rear
Admiral Yangtse 125, Commodore-in-Charge Hongkong unnumbered, Tokyo 841, Commander-in-Chief [ ?ashore] No.396.
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