CO129-571-13 Sino-Japanese War- internment of Chinese soldiers 5-12-1938 - 11-1-1939 — Page 2

CI SINO-JAPANESE

CONFLICT

1. you.

Jel. 361

5/12/38.

2

Anxious to be rid of about 1,000 interned Chinese soldiers. Requests advice as to the extent to which ordinary

rules as to interned belligerents apply in the

complice

present

2

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$1.38

Státé's (1) was intended to

sugges

9/12/38

that the mee

their

6 Japanese.

should be released & giver safe conduct to homes & not handed over to the

? Copics of (1) 4 (2) to F.D., asking:__

1) whether the F.O. wld. all

fit to

ask H. H. 's Ambassador in Tokyo

to lend oupport to the suppotion,

contained in (!), which the Japanese

Consul General has been asked to

forward to Tokyo;

9 2) whether the F.O. cld. advise as to

the

reply

Sov. with

which did. He put to the

regard to the puestion

contained in the last para. If No. U).

4 ? copris 5) (1) 9 (2), with letter to F.O., to fence Dept. 5

A. N. Galsworthy 9/12

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Tokyo.

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