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Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo)
13th June 1939.
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13th June 1939.
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Addressed to Shanghai No.441.
Your telegram No.337 and Foreign Office telegram No.278 to
United States Chargé d'Affaires to-day saw the Vice Minister for Foreign Afiairs and told him that His Majesty's Government would agree to the setting up at Tientsin of a tribunal composed of one British, one Japanese and one neutral member to decide whether prima facie case exists for handing
over the four terrorists to the Tientsin district court for
examination.
The Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs replied that as full powers had been given to General Sugiyama, the Japanese Govern- ment could not give instructions or even advice but that they would transmit the proposal to him for information.
Suggestion however for these reasons should be made in
Tientsin.
American Embassy here state that they have informed the United States Consul-General at Tientsin about this proposal and they say that in any case he has covering instructions from Washington to offer his good offices in any way which seems most
useful.
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