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Registry F 6940/4367/10 Number
TELEGRAM, FROM.
Mr. Archer Peking) 100 (Decypher)
No. Secret
Dated 3rd July, 1939
Received
6th July, in Registry
1939
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220 6 U 1939
Rumoured plan to raid Soviet Embassy at Peking.
Addressed Shanghai No.195. Secretary and Chief of Police of Diplomatic quarters received secret warning from a White Russian whose bona fides he has no reason to doubt that White Russian organisation formed by Japanese is planning to raid Soviet Embassy premises. It is difficult to believe Japanese would at this juncture countenance such a flagrant infringement of Diplomatic status of Soviet Embassy and Diplomatic quarters, but Mr.Archer and Chief of Police thought it well to communicate information to United States Embassy as Senior Diplomatic Mission in case question of guards should have to be considered.
Repeated Tokyo Saving 28 Tientsin saving 47.
(Minutes.)
(which are schiated. inside the Diplomatic
Quarter
Commission
In 1927 the Chinese God = ( Chang Tso- lin) requested authority to make a police raid on the premises of the C.E.R., Halbank, and Ruxian Boxer Indemnity building & and this was granted. During the raid, which was made barly in April, the Chinese police. exceeded then authout, and entered the offices
former of the Soviet Militay Attaché in the barracks I the Imperial Russian Legation Guard. The senior 13 JUL 1939 Minister protested to the Ch. Good in the name
"This colleagues ag'st this violation of dipl. immunity.
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