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Sir A. Clark Herr (Shanghai)
10th June 1938.
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10th June 1938.
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10th June 1938.
No.917 (R)
MIMILIILANIELA
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Your telegram 10.502. Asks for my comments on Hongkong
telegram No.150 to Colonial Office.
I think idea is good, but initiative should be taken by private charity organisations as in Shanghai and Nanking. They should first in conjunction with Kiangtung provincial authorities
decide on a suitable site and then approach Japanese Government (through Japanese Consul General at Hongkong or others) for its recognition as a sanctuary zone. They should, I suggest, endeavour
to get provincial Government (on whom responsibility primarily rests) to accept liability (? for all).
Addressed to Foreign Office No.917.
Repeated to ï'ongkong,
Tokyo and Canton.