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Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
Foreign Office. 5th April, 1938.
11 p.m.
No. 234.
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Your telegram No. 372 [of the 24th March:
transfer of
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Chinese ships to British register].
Last paragraph. I approve your suggestion.
your discretion add an explanation regarding the confusion
of the Haiyuan with the Haiyu on the lines of Shanghai Embassy
telegram No. 532 to Foreign Office, but it would seem desir-
able to avoid going into details so far as possible since we
do not wish to give the Japanese authorities the impression
that they are entitled to call for information in each and
every case of transfer to British flag.
The present position as regards the Haiyu and other
steamers being registered in the name of Marden is given in
the telegrams referred to in my telegram No. 301 to Shanghai
Embassy.
Repeated to Shanghai Embassy No. 302 and Hongkong
unnumbered.
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