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CLOSURE OF NAVIGATION IN PEARL RIVER:
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British Consulate-General,
Canton.
12th November, 1937.
Sir,
Enclosure No.1.
Provisional
The receipt yesterday of official instructions
from Canton Military Headquarters by the Commissioner of
Customs that the temporary postponement of revised
regulations (inter alia limiting the draught of vessels
permitted to pass the barrier to 7 foet at high water) had
been "approved as the result of a personal discussion at
Regg: 20th Headquarters with the British Consul General" concludes, Oct. 1937.
Enclosure No.2.
I hope, a long struggle with the Military Authorities
against restrictions on British shipping, in so far as such
were, and are, unnecessary and serve no military purpose.
(unpublished) As I have repeatedly assured General Yu Han-mou, the 6th November
Revised
ditto
'37.
Pacification Commissioner, both directly, and indirectly
through various intermediaries, I should be the last
person to object to the imposition of necessary restrictions;
if for no other reason than that the entry of Japanese war
vessels within the barrier would expose both Shameen and
British nationals thereon to precisely the same danger of
bombardment as Chinese Military objectives. At the highest
point where vessels could manoeuvre in order to bombard,
His Excellency
Sir Hughe Knatchbul1-ugessen, K.C.M.G.,
His Majesty's Ambassador,
British Embassy,
Peking.
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