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surroundings presuming effective centralisation of civilian
government, if any, which I fear must be regarded as having
been condemned to death when it was forced to leave Nanking.
Second is efficient prosecution of the war.
I need not therefore further burden you with further
appreciations and I shall limit myself in future to narration
of events not recorded in the Press or Agency messages,
to comments published, so far as necessary and to reports on
transaction of such official business as there may be to do.
Repeated to Foreign Office.