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From: Captain on Staff,H.M.S. TAMAR.
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DATE 1/8/38.
TIME 1925.
Addressed D.N.I. repeated S.0.(I) Shanghai.
Your 1615 29th July probably refers to Parent Ship
for Coastal Motor Boats named JANGLEUM launched 5th May
1938 built by Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. to order of
Central Government received December, 1936.
2. By original arrangement ship to be armed after
delivery at Shanghai with small guns purely for self
defence only.
3. Work much delayed and completion indefinite owing to
impossibility of delivery because ship liable to seizure
after leaving Hong Kong.
4. Your laat paragraph is untrue but may refer to
transport of C.M.B'a by train to Canton.
1516/1.
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