(35/73.(1)/30).
7/
May 25rd, 1939.
His Excellency
By dear Vice-Minister,
Your Excellency will recall that
on the 21st April and on the 2nd May I wrote
to you asking for your help in securing the
early release, with their cargoes, of certain
British merchant ships detained by the Japanese
authorities at Canton.
I do not know whether Your excellency
found it possible to take any action in the
matter, but I write now to let you know that
the concessions which the Japanese Naval
authorities were prepared to grant regarding
the cargo were so negligible that errangements
kr. enzO AWALA
His Imperial Japanese Lajesty's
Vice-Minister for Foreign ffairs.
had