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SECRET
kildu
İF 37921
12 AUG 1940
374
From: G.0.0. Hong Kong.
To
: The War office.
repeated G.0.0. Malaya
Desp.1645 9/8/40. Recă.1255 9/8/40.
Commander Shanghai Area Shanghai.
7680 cipher 9/8.
Reliable report from MACAU states that representative
MITSUI inquiring for tons of storage space for 3,000 tons
miscellaneous cargo from Hong Kong. Local reports state
that Yokahama Specie Bank shipped considerable number of
cases with their archives to Japan last voyage of asmara
Maru and N.T.K. also reported sending away their archives.
Above is not regarded as indicating
iminent Japanese attack on colony but tends to show
local merchants may have been "tipped" to expect period
of considerable tension in Anglo Japanese relations in
near future.
C.4.(Telegrams)
Copies to M. 0.1. 2. 2a.
M.I.2. 2c.
M.I.(J.I.C.)
Mr. Sterndale-Bennett. (Foreign Office) Cdr. S. Barry, (Admiralty).
Sqdn. Ldr, C.I. Casey (Air Ministry)
Fr. Gent (Colonial Office)
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