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To JAPAN,
Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo)
Foreign Office, 20th Cetober 1957, 6.10 p.m.
No. 411.
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Your telegram No. 520 [of the 12th October; Japanese threat to destroy Canton-Kowloon railway].
If and when it becomes inevitable to return an
and I rely on you to postpone the day as long
it will be necessary to tell the Japanese government that His Majesty's Covernment do not feel able to accept their proposal. In their opinion, ary
answer
as possible
undertaking to prohibit the carriage of munitions of war from Hongkong to China by the Canton-Kowloon railway
For would constitute intervention in favour of Japan. your own informatica: we could scarcely rely on any undertaking given in return by the Japanese government that the railway would not be damaged, since Japanese aeroplanes which have claimed to be aiming at military objectivos have on numerous occasions dropped bombs so
extremely wide of the mark,
You must therefore play for time as long as possible. Addressed to Tokyo No. 411, repeated to Hongkong
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