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Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).
24th Larch, 1938.
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3.08 p.m.
24th March, 1938.
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9.30 a.m.
24th March, 1938.
No. 565.
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My telegram No. 351.
French Ambassador in interim reply to Minister for Foreign
Affairs' identic note ten promises to inform his Government
but adds any notification which might be issued to French
shipping could not be an order and failure to follow suggested
route could not be imputed to a French ship as justifying
any mistake made by Japanese navy. On the other hand should
French shipping choose to comply such compliance would not
affect their right to navigate wherever they wished.
Addressed to Foreign Office; repeated to Hongkong
(Hongkong please repeat to Commander-in-Chief as telegram
No. 74) and Saving to Shanghai.
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