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From: CHINA.
Decode.
Mr. Blunt (Canton)
17th November, 1938.
D. By W/T
18th November, 1938.
R. 6.00 p. m.
18th November, 1938.
No. 145. (R).
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Addressed to Embassy Shanghai telegram 289 of
17th November.
Japanese military authorities have published two issues of a newspaper in Chinese 11th November and 17th November, and they hope to issue shortly two further newspapers in Japanese and one in Chinese as well as British owned Canton Daily Sun
in English.
2. Reliable foreigners inform me that Japanese authorities have told them that it is hoped to reopen river traffic by the end of November and Canton-Kowloon Railway traffic in
January.
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I am informed reliably that from 400 to 500 Japanese
merchants are now in Canton.
Repeated to Foreign Office and Governor Hong Kong.
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