F 11285/10648/10
PORZION OF 10%
November
1938.
89
Draft
Telegram.
Senior Naval Officer,
No.
Changsha.
Cypher
No Distribution.
Following for Sir A. Clark Kerr.
Your telegram No. 1467 of the 13th October:
Canton-Kowloon Railway.
Transit facilities over Canton-Kowloon
Railway may have to be refused to Japanese in
interests of order and security of Hong Kong.
Japanese will hardly agree to make payments in
absence of such facilities, and I think it will
therefore be best not to raise issue with them.
Should the Generalissimo refer to the
matter you may inform him that our attitude is the
same as in case of other railways which have been
occupied or cut by Japanese.
General
representations have been made to the Japanese
Government asking them to recognise and respect
British interests in all such lines.
Repeated to Shanghai No...... for
repetition to Tokyo Baving.
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