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Sir F. Lindley (Tokyo)
29th September 1931.
D.
6.55 p.m.
29th September 1931.
R.
2.25 p.m.
29th September 1931.
No. 175.
(3).
Addressed to Hongkong.
I am most grateful for information contained
in your telegram No. 135 to Colonial Office. From
this I made it plain to the Minister for Foreign
Affairs this afternoon that everything had been
and was being done to protect Japanese subjects. also cxpressed my deep personal regret that any should have been murdered in a British colony.
Repeated to Foreign Office and Peking.
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