Cypher/OTP
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
FROM NANKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Sir R. Stevenson
D.1.32.p.m. 22nd May 1948
No: 453
22nd May 1948
R.3.50.p.m. 22nd May 1948
Repeated to Hong Kong
Canton
RESTRICTED
17 JUL 1948
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No:453-of- 22nd May repeated for information to Hong Kong and Canton.
Following from Lamb.
Your telegram No:430.
Canton incident.
There has been no further official
communication from the Chinese Government.
2. I took, however, the opportunity of informal conversation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs May 18th, to remind him that we were waiting to hear from him again about compensation. Minister for Foreign Affairs assured me of his anxiety for a satisfactory settlement and said that further investigations as to the extent of the damage and losses by the Chinese Government officials were being conducted as urgently as possible.
3. Should there by any developments by May 27th they will be reported by telegraph.
Foreign Office please pass to Hong Kong
as my telegram 182.
[Copies sent to Telegraph Section, Colonial Office for repetition to Hong Kong.]
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