OUTWARD TELEGRAM
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Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigic
Foreign Office 11th April, 1940.
No. 280
& & & & & &
(Tokyo)
5.15 a.m.
Your telegram No. 403 [of 7th March:
seizure of s.s.
SAGRES, LALITA, and DHOLERA], not repeated anywhere.
As regards the LALITA, the New Dholcra Steamship Company
are prepared to accept Japanese Government's offer contained
in your telegram No. 332 [of 21st February] provided the
DHOLERA which belongs to the same company is released at the
same time, both steaners to be delivered in Singapore before
30th April, in the same condition in which they were at the
time of capture, to the chairman of New Dholera Steamships
Limited or is duly constituted agent in writing.
2. This attitude is directly opposed to that of the
owners of the SAGRES (Hong Kong telegram to Colonial Office
No. 140 [of 20th March]) but as payment of compensation in any
event unlikely I think that unless you sec objection the replies
of both owners should now be communicated to the Japanese
Government.
Repeated to Shanghai No. 312 Hong Kong No, 8.
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