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Decypher.
Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
July 3rd 1938.
D.
10.45 a. m.
July 3rd 1938.
R. 9.30 a.m.
July 3rd 1938.
No.809.
CONFIDENTIAL.
My telegram No.807.
My French colleague had a disagreeable interview about
Indo-Chinese arms traffic today with Minister for Foreign
Affairs who hinted that local French authorities were keeping
the French Government in the dark as to the quantity of material
crossing the frontier illicitly. Despite Ambassador's
In response
insistence the Minister for Foreign Affairs failed to produce
any concrete evidence in support of the allegation.
to similar insistence at earlier interview the Minister for
Foreign Affairs had produced long list of cases in which
munitions were alleged to have been forwarded but with one
exception no particulars had been produced permitting of
adequate investigation on the spot. After reference to
Paris and Saigon Ambassador had been authorised to deny the
allegations in toto.
Addressed to Foreign Office No.809 of July 2nd, repeated
to mbassy Shanghai.