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An assurance that Chinese

fighting men will be excluded from

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Japanese consent is to be obtained

but as camps are in Chinese

territory I am not at present clear

how such an assurance could be made

effective, Do you consider that

would

it will be practicable and desirable

in any case to arrange that camp

stores and offices should be kept on

British side of frontier, or in case of

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