MESSAGE
TO: Commander in Chief China.
672.
Commodore Hong Kong.695.
P/L.
OUT
DATE: 14.8.37.
Addressed Commander in Chief China Repeated
Commodore Hong Kong From Admiralty.
Foreign office have received a request
from Estonian Minister that if possible arrangements may be made for British ships to embark some 120
Estonian citizens at Shanghai should it be
decided to evacuate foreign residents to some
safer place.
Request that where British interests
are not prejudiced you will give sympathetic consideration to this and any similar requests
from representatives in Shanghai of nations who are without means of arranging the evacuation of their
own nationals.
1st Lord. 1st S.L.
2nd S.L.
3rd S.L.
ES
4th S.L.
D.C.N.S.
A.C.N.S.(Air).
A.C.N.S.
PARL. SEC.
CIVIL LORD.
NAVAL SEC.
P.A.5.(S) O.D. (3).
D.N.I.(6).
M.(6).
M.34.
(こ)
D. of F. (E).
SEC.
M.35 (M.4772/37).
R.C.(3)
W.R.
DAST
1848/17.
for Head of M.
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