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Decypher.
Mr. Blunt (Canton).
D.
Wireless.
October 17th 1938.
October 17th 1938.
R.
4.30 p.m.
October 17th 1938.
No.89.
IMPORTANT.
Addressed to British mbassy Shanghai telegram No.196 of
October 17th.
Chief Engineer of Canton-Kowloon Railway informs me this
morning railway staff ran railway today. Managing Director
is still in Canton but has signed letter handing over funds
which are in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on Shameen to the
emergency committee consisting of Chief Engineer and Chief
Accountant (representing railway) and local representatives
of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and Jardine Matheson and
Company.
Repeated to Foreign Office telegram No.89 and Hongkong No.110.
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