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.

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