(F 7552/130/10).
Immediate.
Dup
FOREIGN OFFICE,S.W.1.
8th October, 1937.
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Dear Gent,
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With reference to Hong Kong telegram to Tokyo
No. 18 of the 7th October about the Japanese threat to
destroy the Canton-Kowloon Railway, I send you herewith
a copy of the telegram which was despatched to Sir Robert
Craigie last night (and repeated to Hong Kong) instructing
him to keep the Japanese in play.
We are not exactly clear as to the significance of
the Acting Governor's suggestion that he might furnish
the Japanese Consul confidentially with certified waybills
indicating the volume of traffic.
If he means to imply
that the traffic is very small, then it seems to us
important that we should be in possession of information
in support in order that when we reject the Japanese
G. E. J. Gent, Esq., D. S. O., 0. B. E.
proposition/