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permissible from military point of view and to offer facilities
for passage of such vessels by supplying a convoy. It is therefore the earest desire of the Imperial Japanese Favy that vessels of interested Powers taking full cognizance and
appreciation of the above mentioned circumstances will
scrupulously refrain from attempting navigation through the
forced channel freely or in such a way as hay create mis- understanding with Japanese Navy".
I shall be much obligedif you will be so kind as to circulate the foregoing amongst our honourable colleagues in
the usual way.
Repeated to Foreign Office and Tokyo.