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F3481/177
2 JUL 1940
110 277 Y
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION
From: JAPAN
Decode.
Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo)
1st July 1940.
D.
R.
10.15 p.m. 6.50 p.m.
1st July 1940.
1st July 1940.
No. 1136 (R)
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Reports of order for evacuation of women and children from Hong Kong have been prominently displayed in Japanese press but there is as yet no comment.
2. Spokesman of Ministry of Foreign Affairs is reported to have told foreign correspondents this morning that he himself wanted to know reasons.
Repeated to Hong Kong telegram No. 208, Singapore telegram No. 77, Shanghai telegram No. 489 (Hong Kong pass Commander- in-Chief telegram No. 342).
being very disingenuous
The Japanese are
about this business Sir J. Brohan Ak My
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