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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
February 10, 1932.
SECTION 1.
[F 1218/1/10]
No. 1.
Sir John Simon to Sir Claud Russell (Lisbon).
(No. 41.) Sir,
Foreign Office, February 10, 1932. IN the course of conversation with me at Geneva, the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Commandant Branco, told me that the Japanese consul at Hong Kong had recently enquired of the Governor of Macao whether the Portuguese Govern- ment would be prepared to receive in the Colony Japanese residents from Hong Kong if they had to be moved, in view of disturbances in the Far East extending in the direction of Canton. The Portuguese Government had answered that they would be prepared to receive Japanese residents from Hong Kong if necessary. I thanked Commandant Branco for giving me this information, and promised that his Government should be kept informed of any incidents in the Far East known to us which appeared to be of interest to Portugal in view of her possession at Macao. We had no information which indicated that the present trouble would move south. Hong Kong was a British Colony, and there was no reason known to me why any arrangements of the sort indicated should be made. If Commandant Branco heard any more on the subject, I should be glad if he would let me know.
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I am, &c.
JOHN SIMON.