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Cypher telegram from the Officer Administering the

Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the

Colonies.

(Dated 19th October, 1937.

Received 3.8 p.m. 19th October,

1937.)

(1446)

No.241.

(133)

Your telegram No.212

Railway damage repaired

also damage inflicted in a subsequent and more determined

attack on the 15th October.

2¢

I repeated to Tokyo on the 16th October figures

in my telegrams No.229 and 232 to you and will supply

weekly figures as a routine.

3.

concluding sentence I understand that the Ambassador

is allowed to furnish past statistics in arrears but I

By the use of the word "current" in your

have not mentioned this point to him.

4.

Argumenta supplied to Tokyo repented in my

immediately following telegram. I do not pretend to hope

that they will bear fruit in Japan's present state of mind.

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