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(F.6804/130/10).

Euffen.

NO DISTRIBUTION.

Cypher telegram to Sir k. Craigie (Tokyo).

Foreign Office. 23rd September, 1937. 9.30 p.m.

No.341.

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Hongkong telegram No.3 [of the 20th September: non-interference with Chinese junks discharging British

vessels].

Assurance suggested seems to be implicit in (1) of statement reported in Mr. Dodds' telegram No.321. Nevertheless, if you see no objection, please mention specific point to Japanese authorities and endeavour

to obtain explicit assurance.

Addressed to Tokyo No.341; repeated to Nanking No.321,

Commander-in-Chief and Hongkong.