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MAX SECRET (2).
13 MAY 1039
Copies to: H.B.M. Ambassador, Shanghai No.33
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
H.B.M. Consul-General, Canton No.28 4th May, 1939.
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I have the honour to inform you that the
head of the police force at Shum Chun, just over the
Anglo-Chinese frontier, has requested authority to
purchase in Hong Kong certain arms for that force.
Such action is of course not discordant
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with the terms of Article 7 of the Hague Convention
but the instructions contained in your secret telegram
No.263 of 22nd December, 1938, make it necessary for
me to ask your special authority.
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The New Territories have of late been
subjected to a number of outrages by armed bandits
from across the frontier and I should welcome any step
whereby some semblance of law and order could be
restored to that region.
4. The arms originally belonging to that police
force were lost at the time of the Japanese invasion
part there and were in fact surrendered when their owners
fled across the frontier for safety. Apart from the
difficulty of distinguishing these from the numerous
firearms surrendered by soldiers at the same time,
I am advised that the return of such arms would be
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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