CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939 — Page 32

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? Copy 301 to Foreign Office, observing as

at A above and saying that the Secretary of State will

be grateful for advice as to the reply which should

be returned to the Governor.

Copy telegram and letter

to Service Departments Board of Trade and Burma

Office Secret lff. information.

P. Rages.

S.12.38.

This is a

a difficult poser'

fortunately hypothetical at the stage.

The overinding factor in

formulating HK's attitude on any

problem at present must

by: -

the Colony's own defence

intercels.

Secondly

maintaining

possible

the desinability

as

good relations as

with the Chinese Goot, but-

more farticularly the Cantonese

Gort.

Of these

no

the first dors requine

to avoid provoking the

Japanese to return to the HK

with all the mudents which

frontier

that give rise

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The second

does not require us to permet