COPY FOR REGISTRATION.
CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary
of State for the Colonies.
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Dated 15th February 1933.
Receivad 6.49 a.m., 15th February.
No.40.
Addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.40 of the 15th February repeated to Tokyo telegram To.18. Information received through Japanese Consul General that
British s.s. Asian on voyage from Hong Kong to Hongay was seized by Japanese warship on the 7th February and taken to lakong.
Asian was formerly Huahchong on Chinese register cnd was transferred to liong Kong register on the 5th February 1938 with with the concurrence of the Board of Trade (see Board of Trude telegram to Harbour Master Hong Kong RG 1023 of the 11th January 1938), Owners are Lingnam Steamship Company registered in Hong Kong, in
? ? which 98 per cent of shares are held by S.T. Williamson a British
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subject. Evidence regarding purchase and status of Company has
been supplied by the owners to the Japanese Consul General who has
promised to forward this to his Government.
Copics of relevant
documents are being forwarded to H.H.Ambassador at Tokyo.
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