COPY FOR REGISTRATIS..
CYPHER TELEGRAM fren the Governor of Hong Kong to the
Secretary of State for the Coloniea.
Dated 2nd June.
Received 7.6 ... 2nd June, 1989.
48.
52
No. 162.
Addressed to Canton No. 61 of the 2nd June
repeated to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No, (49)
162, Tokyo No.47, Shanghai No. 65. Your telegram No, 139,
I fail entirely to understand how the Jepancye
Consul General at Canton or any other o ngidereble Japanese
authority could give credence to the rumour that the use of
the Hong Kong aerodrome would be permitted to Chinese or
Japanese Military aeroplanes, this obviously abaurd story
has been repeated by the Japenese Consul General this
morning to the Colonial Secretary and I instructed the
latter to expreus my surprise and resentment at the
imputation against this Colony a neutral attitude when hee
alwayu been strictly maintained,
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