SECRET
COPY OF TELEGRAM.
FROM Admiralty.
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C. in C. China 429.
DATE 21.6.34.
Commodore Hong Kong 524.
ADDRESSED C. in C. China repeated Commodore Hong Kong
from Admiralty.
IMMEDIATE
Your 667.
Question of armed guarde
is being raised by Parliamentary question and by
request from China Navigation Company.
Admiralty presume that arrangements
nade in 1930 whereby companies can obtain armed
police guards at Hong Kong on repayment are still
Please confirg imaediately.
effective.
You should
also report as soon as possible whether these or
similar guarda are or could be made available for
British vessels trading in Northern Chinese Watera.
1417/21.