CO129-563-18 Sino-Japanese War- stopping of British shipping by Japanese 11-9-1937 - 29-12-1937 — Page 28

NO DISTRIBUTION.

Decypher.

Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).

20th December, 1937.

D.

4.45 p.m.

28th December, 1937.

R.

9.30 a.m.

28th December, 1937.

No. 884.

Istence.

0:0:0:0:0

My telegram No.882.

Reason for boarding was that ship was close in shore and Commanding Officer of destroyer suspected she was "laying mines

in Bias Bay".

Addressed to Foreign Office; repeated to Embassy Offices Shanghai (for Hongkong, Commander-in-Chief and Singapore).

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