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NO DISTRIBUTION.

Decypher.

Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).

19th July, 1938.

D.

3.39 p.m.

20th July, 1938.

R.

9.30 a.in.

20th July, 1938.

No. 872.

0:0:0:0

My telegram No. 788.

Suspicion as to nationality was caused by Lal Ita which

resembles certain Chinese merchant ships being in a position

and on a course towards the shore not usual to any regular

British line.

Addressed to Foreign Office, telegram No. 872 July 19th;

repeated to Shanghai telegram No. 667. Shanghai please repeat

to Hongkong telegram No. 127, Singapore telegram No. 35 and

Commander-in-Chief telegram No. 142.