CO129-573-2 Export of torpedo boats to China 14-5-1938 - 5-10-1938 — Page 43

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Mr. Rogers. 24/6/38.

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Sir G. Tomlinson.

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My telegram No.113 H.M.G

have decided that it is undesirable that

DRAFT. TELEGRAM (Recypher)

HUNG KONG

GOVERNOR.

SECRET.

andthem

I understand in two fatha Thornequoff motor torpedo lonks for Chimes Got an on

board S.S. GLENABB lift here 28th May for

Home Kung,

Kung, and that

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eight in all has been

and that

ordered next pair wall be completed middhörnly and Inst pair town do and pr Augusto 4M9 as at present- adried han

FURTHER ACTION.

boats of this kind should be sent on from

Hong Kong to China, either in a British

ship or under their own power, though

there is no objection to their being sent

by the land route or by foreign ships.

If at any time it appears that

the agents of the Chinese Government are

the latter

contemplating adopting this form

procedure, I should accordingly be glad

if you would report immediately, so that

the possibility of taking steps to prevent

their departure by either of those methods

may be, considered.

no objection to thin bring

such wisels being stored on land in A.K and sunt on to china by land south frame but these wibe

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objections if they completed the coursey from

HK bysen under their own pown or in Bukish ship.

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