CO129-563-15 Sino-Japanese War- Anti-Japanese demonstrations and evacuation of Japanese 1-9-1937 - 28-4-1938 — Page 46

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CYPHER TELEGRA" from the Officer Administering the

Government of Hong Kong, to the Secretary of State

for the Colonies.

Dated 1st September, 1937. Received 3.44 p.m. 1st September.

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No.168

Addreased to the Secretary of State for the Colonies

telegram No.168 of 1st September; repeated to Tokyo and Nanking.

Yesterday's air attack on Canton is embarrassing to

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Hong Kong and I have with the concurrence of the Executive

Council to-day advised the Japanese Consul-General to

concentrate Japanese residents into clearly arranged compounds

in order to avoid possible disorder. Behaviour of the local

Chinese hitherto irreproachable but with population largely nina (swollen by)

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Borry to

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numerous refugees from Canton itself continuous

complacency can hardly be expected. Overcrowding of the Colony

by refugees from Canton now serious and I am taking certain

steps to check influx though anxious if possible not to upset the

Colony's fine tradition of sanctuary by closing the port etc.

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order I reserve the right to request evacuation of Japanese if good /

of the Colony necessitates this. Japanese abstention from

further senseless attacks on Canton itself will probably be the

deciding factor.