CO129-571-9 Sino-Japanese War- Canton-Kowloon railway 25-3-1938 - 28-2-1939 — Page 52

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6 January, 1939.

I am directed by Mr. Secretary MacDonald to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter

No.F.13474/10648/10 of the 22nd of December, 1938,

transmitting a copy of a telegram received from His

Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo referring to the seizure

by the Japanese of British owned rolling stock of the

Canton-Kowloon Railway.

2. I am to state that Mr. MacDonald understands

the present situation to be that, as a result of the

suggestion (contained in your letter to this Department

of the 25th of March, 1938, and the Foreign Office

telegram No.294 to Shanghai) to the effect that the

British authorities in Hong Kong might arrange with the

Chinese authorities in Canton for the storage in

Kowloon of the movable property of the Chinese Section

of the Railway in the interests of the railway bond-

holders, a certain amount of such property is at present

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

lying