CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939 — Page 223

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From JAPAN.

Decypher.

Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).

27th June, 1938.

D.

7.00 p.m.

27th June, 1938.

R. 4.00 p.m.

27th June, 1938.

No. 785

My telegram No. 761.

I consider Japanese have genuinely come to the conclusion

that a considerable volume of munitions is reaching Central

Government via Indo-China and that purpose of anti-French Press

agitation is primarily to scare French authorities into exercising

stricter control. This is not to say that there will be no

descent on Hainan if need arises from strategical point of view

(see my telegram No. 784)

Addressed to Foreign Office repeated to Sir A. Clark Kerr

and Hongkong.