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COPY FOR REGISTRATION
Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the
Orotary of State for the Colonies.
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O. REGI
Dated 16th August, 1939.
1939. Received 9.16.8.3. 16th August.
TRT decode.
No. 228.
Addressed to Mission at Chungking telegran
Repeated to
No. 20 of the 16th August/Shanghai telegram 11o. 86
Secretery of State for the Colonies telogran No. 228.!
British newspaper 15th August published
statement apparently derived from Chungking that for two days Hong Kong vernacular press was forbidden to
publish news of handing over the four men at Tien-tsin, ? ?
?
H.H.Government's explanation or the Chinese Foreiga
Office protest.
If such statement is current in
Chungking it may be denied us totally untrue.
hafog