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FOREIGN OFFICE,
8.#.1.
27th October, 1938.
sir,
with reference to Tokyo telegram No.1195 of
14th October on the subject of the boarding of 8.8.
"City of Oran", I am directed by Viscount Halifax to
transmit for the information of the Lords Commissioners
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of the Admiralty, a copy of a further telegram from His
Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo stating that the ship was
boarded for reasons of security in connexion with the
Japanese landing in Blas Bay.
2. It appears however from the message from His
xcellency the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, to His
Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo of 16th Cetober, that the
action of the Japanese boarding officer in calling 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 in this connexion Foreign Office telegram to Tokyo
No.416 of 21st October, 1987).
3.
Lord Halifax would accordingly propose, subject
to the concurrence of Their Lordships, to instruct His
Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo to register a protest with
the Japanese authorities and again to make clear to them
that /
The Secretary
of the Admiralty.