F 6351/6351/10)
NO DISTRIBUTION.
Code telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo)
Foreign Office, 14th September 1937, 7.00 p.m.
No. 314.
Hongkong telegram No. 183 to Colonial Office [removal of staff of Japanese Consulate General Canton]. Please request Japanese government to remove Service Attaches in question as soon as possible on ground that they are not personae gratae with Hongkong government. If asked why you could say they had engaged in intelligence work but you should not promise
details.
Repeated to Hongkong unnumbered, Nanking No. 291 and Commander-in-Chief unnumbered.
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