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No. 1017.
DEPARTMENTAL No. 2.
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO BERNE.
17th April, 1942.
D. 12.15 p.m., 18th April, 1942.
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Your telegram No. 1279 [of 14th April: advice to British subjects in occupied China].
As the Phillips mentioned in your telegram No. 702 [of 27th February] was described as one of two "commissaires de police", we were doubtful whether he was in fact identical with the Secretary of Council. The position is now understood.
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2. Nevertheless, please ask the Swiss Government
to pass on to their Chargé d'Affaires in Shanghai the sense of my telegram No. 940 [of 10th April], and instruct him, if other British subjects should apply to him for advice, to reply accordingly.
(INDIV)
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