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TO JAPAN.
Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
Foreign Office.
No. 575.
7th October, 1937.
7.00 p.ll.
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Your telegrams Nos. 435 and 500 [of the 4th and 7th October; Japanese threat to destroy Canton-Howloon railway].
You should inform Japanese Government that the matter was referred for consideration to London and that you hope to be
able to furnish them in due course with a definite answer.
I do not see how a favourable
For your own information.
answer could be given, and delay in giving a reply seems desirable in order to secure a respite for the railway.
Addressed to Tokyo No. 375.
Repeated to Hongkong
unnumbered.