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Decypher.
Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
14th June, 1939.
D.
12.10 p.m., 14th June, 1939.
R.
9.30 a.m., 14th June,
14th June, 1939.
No. 555.
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IMMEDIATE.
My telegram No. 554, not repeated to Shanghai and
Tientsin.
In the course of the same conversation, the French
Counsellor spoke to the head of the Bureau about Tientsin.
The latter said that he thought that in two or three days
there would be possibilities of co-operation there between
the Japanese, French and British. The French Counsellor
presumed he was thinking of proposal for tribunal.
Very Confidential. Head of the Bureau then speaking
quite unofficially remarked "We are very embarrassed by the
war in China and do not know how to end it"; and that the
purpose of bombings in Chungking and Chengtu was to enable
the Japanese Government to have something to show to the
Japanese people.
The head of the Bureau should on no account be quoted.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 555 June 14th;
to Shanghai No. 443 and Tientsin No. 48.
repeated