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Your Excellency,
Enclosure 1.
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The Consul General for Japan came to see me
this morning. He said that he had received a telegram last night from his Government instructing him to inform the Colonial Government that it had been decided to send the Japanese Gun- -boat "Baga" now lying in Wanchai Bay to Canton and that she would probably leave tomorrow morning. He said that the purpose in view was to protect the Japanese commnity at Canton in the event of the City being attacked and that it might become necessary to remove the whole of the community consisting of about 150 persons to the Gunboat. He presumed that the decision to send the Gunboat had been taken on representations made by the Japanese Consul- -General at Canton, who had been for some time very anxious about
the state of affairs.
Mr. Takahashi then asked me whether the
British Consul-General had not intervened. I told him that Mr.
Jerisson had sent a telegram on July 22nd to Tussuling Teen
(Shum) at Shinhing asking him towe his influence for a suspen-
-sion of hostilities pending the arrival of Tutu la, and that the
translation of the telegram had appeared in the English newa- -papers in Hongkong. Mr. Takahashi said he thought Mr. Jamieson
had done well in telegraphing, but he had not heard whether there
had been any remalt. He thought La was expected to arrive in
Canton on the 26th. July. He asked me to convey the instructions
of his Government to you and he then left.
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(8d.) G. Severn,
1. Secy.
28.7.16.
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