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Cypher telegram to ir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
Foreign Office.
iNo. 444.
2nd November, 1937.
6.20 p.1.
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Your telegram No. 609 [of the 20th ctober:
publicity
for the fact that no munitions from British sources have passed through Hongkong to China].
1. I am averse from publicity, which could hardly be limited to Japan and which, together with Japanese comments, might have adverse reactions elsewhere. In any event I am doubtful whether it would operate to limit attacks on the Canton-Kowloon Railway which are merely determined rather by the fact that arms are transported by it at all than the provenance of the arms.
2. You are authorised to make such use of the fart as you can in conversation at the Gaimusho and to instruct your Naval and Military Attaches to do likewise at the service Ministries. The greatest care should however be taken to avoid implying that His Majesty's Government are now or are likely in future to impose restrictions upon the export of arms to China.
Addressed to Tokyo No. 444, repeated to Hongkong unnumbered.
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