ORIGINAL ON 53838/48/39 5400
Telegram frost the Governor of Hong Kong to the
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
54005/39.
10/10
Dated 16th August; 1939. Received 9.16.8.3. 16th August.
*R' decode.
No. 229.
Addressed to Mission at Chungking telegram
Repeated to
No. 20 of the 16th August/Shanghai telegram No. 86
Secretery of State for the Colonios telogran No. 228.
British newspaper 15th August published
statement apparently derived from Chungking that for
two days Hong Kong vernacular prens was forbidden to
publish news of handing over the four men at Tion-tsin, ? ?
1.N.Government's explanation or the Chinese Foreign
Office protest.
If such distement is current in
Chungking it may be denied as totally untrue.
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