INWARD TELEGRAM
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JA:
XI XII
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TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
Code
COPY FOR REGISTE
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FIVED IN FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
MOST IMMEDIATE
No. 63.
D. 16th January, 1948 R. 16th
FEGISTRY
21
10,20 hrs.
Addrossed to British Ambassador
Nanking, No. 20.
Repeated * g. of 5.
Mob attacked and burned the British
Consul General (7group omitted) in Canton today. All British personnel accounted for and safe except Blackwell who has not yet been located. Reports ero incomplete as yet. Other British property at Shamsen including Jardine Matheson and Co. and Butterfield and Swires have also been attacked and looted.
Foreign Office.
Secretary of State please pass to
Copy sent to:- Foreign Office
(0.8.D. informed)
Communicatione Department.
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