No.87 (173/701/1938)
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Foreign Office No. 980 Embassy Shanghai
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BRITISH EMBASSY,
TOKY.
21st November, 1958.
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Your Excellency,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt
of Your Excellency's Jecret despatch No. 39, K/3:HT of the 9th August regarding the arms traffic passing
through Hong Kong.
2.
I should be grateful if an expression of my thanks could be conveyed to those who co-
operated in the collection of the detalled and
interesting information contained in the enclosure to Your excellency's despatch, which has been used, in a general form, at the Japanese General Staff, in refuting their allegations regarding the British soare of arms imports into China.
I have the honour to be
sir,
Your excellency's most obedient servant
(SGD) R.L. CRAIGIE.
His Excellency
ir stafford Northcote, .C..G.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
Victoria,
HONG KONG.