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(F 10470/176/23)
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3/10.
Dear Cent,
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.
4th October, 1939.
With reference to our official printed letter
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To. F. 10070/2655/10 of the 14th September, I enclose
a copy of a letter from Mr. Arthur Edwardes, the
unofficial representative in London of the puppet
Government of Manchuria, to the Parliamentary Under-
Secretary of State about a possible approach by the
Japanese Consul-General at Hong Kong to the Government
of the Colony.
2. While Edwardes is perhaps inclined to see the
Japanese policy in a rather too optimistic light,
it seems to us that it should be possible to do
something to meet a Japanese request for the control
of anti-Japanese activities in Hong Kong and that it
might afford a basis for the discussion of outstanding
difficulties with regard to the Colony.
In any
case, having regard to the determination of His
Majesty's Government to seek all possible means of
G. E. J. Gent Esq., D. 5.0., 0. B. E.,
improving/