By Safe Hand
25th September, 1939.
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My dear Ambassador,
I attach a memorandum of interview which I had
with General Fu Te-Chen yesterday.
As you probably know,the Japanese are muttering
a lot about the anti-Japanese attitude of Hong Kong and I
want to prevent them having more grounds for their grous es
than is inevitable. I do not know quite what General Yu is
up to here but if, as I suspect, it is more or less what I
reprobated to him, I trust that the Generalissimo will be
asked to forbid such 'goings on'. It would be a poor
return for what we have tried to do for China if,within
freety
the shelter that we have fittingly given them,Chinese
Government Agenta should brew trouble for us vis-a-vis the
Japanese.
I am sending copies of this letter and enclosure
to the Colonial Office and to Prideaux Brune for information.
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, K.C.M.G.,
H.M. Ambassador to China,
British Embassy,
Shanghai.
Yours sincerely,
SGD. G.A.S. NORTHCOTE
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