121
2.
I will endeavour to keep this before Japanese Government
but if there is in fact no trade to be had I deprecate for the
moment pressing for convoys merely to assert the right of
passage. Any concrete evidence His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires
can communicate to me from time to time bearing on absence (a)
of real danger to shipping or (b) of intended traffic round the
booms for military purposes,would be of use to me.
Addressed Foreign Ofice telegram No. 123 of January 29,
repeated to Shanghai telegram No. 88.