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From CHINA.
Decypher.
ir. Gage. (Nanking),
September 4th, 1937.
D. (by wireless) September 4th, 1937.
September 4th, 1957.
8.5.p.n.
R.
No. 417.
29th.
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longkong telegram No. 165 to Colonial Office August
The Chinese Government and the educated classes are
watching with the utmost anxiety for the reaction of His
Majesty's Government to Japan's suggestion that restrictions should be imposed on the use of Hongkong as an entrepôt for
the import of arms into China. They do not intend to ask us
for favours but they feel that it is a matter of life and
death for them and that as joint signatories with them of the
Kellogg Pact and other agreements which Japan is trampling
under foot we owe then something more than the benevolence of
neutrality, the effect of which will be to destroy their
power of resisting the aggressor.
Japan's appeal to the Powers to help her to shorten
hostilities by cutting off China's supply of arms calls
forth specially cynical comments.
4th;
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 417 September
repeated to Peking telegram No. 517, Commander-in-
Chief and Tokyo.
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