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Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
Foreign Office, 16th November, 1938.
No. 749.
11.25 p.m.
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Shanghai telegrams Nos. 1467 and 1530 [of the 13th October
and 25th October].
You should, if you see no objection, remind Japanese Government of British interest in Chinese section of Canton Kowloon railway.
You should at the same time remind Japanese Government that British section of railway is property of Hongkong Government, and ask that instructions should be issued for return of rolling stock referred to in Canton telegram 265 [of the 5th November] repeated to you No. 55. In view of Colonial Office telegram No. 212 to Hongkong [of 3rd November] you should not in this case raise issue of payment out of revenues of railway to meet service of loans.
Repeated to Shanghai No. 990, Canton No. 20 and Chungking
No. 98.
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