[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned
to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]
SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET.
From CHIFA.
Decypher.
Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai),
19th December, 1939.
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4.42 p.m.
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19th December, 1939.
19th December, 1939.
No. 1390.
IMPORTANT.
My immediately preceding telegram.
The points on which Chiang Kai-shek is likely to require the latest information are:
1.
2.
British policy towards
a Russia
b- Far East
The possibility of Russia or Japan declaring war
on Great Britain (my telegram No. 97 Tour Series), Assistance to China from the Democracies (my telegram
No. 98 Tour Series, paragraph 5 - 9).
3. Shipping facilities to Rangoon and Haiphong; supply of munitions; aeroplane factory in Burma; financial help jointly with the United States (my telegram No. 101 Tour Series).
4. Raison d'être of the French Government [? grp. omtd.] towards the Chinese Government especially with regard to transport supplies through Indo-China (my telegram No. 69 Tour Series).
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 1390 of December 19th, repeated to Tokyo No. 826.
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