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Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo),
Foreign Office, 9th November, 1938.
4.55 p.m.
No. 730.
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Your telegram No. 1224 [of 21st October: stopping of S.S. City of Oran] and Commander-in-Chief's telegram to you No. 277 [of 16th October: same subject].
Action of Japanese boarding officer in salling for the production of the ship's papers other than the certificate of registry clearly went beyond what has previously been made clear to the Japanese authorities as permissible (see Foreign Office telegram No. 416 of 21st October 1937).
2. If you see no objection, therefore, you should protest to the Japanese authorities and again make clear to them that the arrangements previously communicated to them constitute a concession beyond which His majesty's Government are not prepared to go, and request them to take suitable steps to prevent a recurrence.
Repeated to Shanghai No. 963 and Commander-in-Chief.