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NO DISTRIBUTION.

Decypher.

bir R. Crai¿ie (Tokyo)

23rd February, 1939.

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7.15 p.m.

23rd February, 1959.

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1.10 p.m.

23rd February, 1939.

No. 175.

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IMMEDI TE.

Please pass to Canton as my telegram No. 13. Governor of Hong Kong's telegram 78 to Secretary of

State for Colonies.

Point A. We are doing what we can to get a correct statement of the facts published.

Point B. In an interview this morning I impressed the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the promise to give forty-eight hours notice had not been fulfilled, in connexion with my demand for punishment of those responsible.

Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 175 of

23rd February;

No. 26.

repeated to Shanghai No. 148, Hong Kong