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Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai),
30th May, 1939.
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5.50 p.m. 30th May, 1939.
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30th May, 1939.
No. 486.
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IMPORTANT.
Tientsin telegram No. 188 to you.
In last paragraph Consul-General suggests that the
instructions I gave to him in accordance with your telegram
9 No. 391 to Shanghai put in grave danger the lives of the British
community.
If this is really so question reduces itself to a choice
between British and Chinese lives in the concession and those
of the four men in question. In that case there can be but
one answer.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 486, repeated to Tokyo
No. 312 and Tientsin No. 152.