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CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the
Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
Dated 18th September, 1937.
Received 3.45 p.m., 18th
September, 1937.
No.196.
Important.
Addressed to Secretary of State for the Colonies
No.196 of 18th September repeated to Nanking No.37
Commander-in-Chief No. 13 Tokyo No. 11.
Japanese naval
forces operating near Hong Hong waters have recently
?disabled and sunk several Chinese fishing vessels which
normally supply Hong Kong with fish. As this Colony has
over a thousand Japanese residents, if for no other reason,
it is to be hoped that this interference with essential
food supplies may be discontinued.
2
The boats in question ?carried Hong Kong
registration numbers clearly painted on stern but it has
never seemed necessary to call on them to have other
evidence of nationality.
3.
Public opinion in the Colony is considerably
upset at these acts of something like piracy the bearing
of which on general Chinese situation most onlookers are
finding it difficult to appreciate,