CO129-579-2 Sino-Japanese War- attack on British ship S.S. Sagres 9-4-1939 - 13-7-1939 — Page 28

SECRET.

53838/11/39

MESSAGE.

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From

C. in C. China.

INTERDEPARTMENTAL CYPHER.

39/28

IN.

DATE ... 6.5.39.

RECD

2021.

Addressed H.F.Ambassador Tokyo 427 repeated H.M.Ambassador

Shanghai 531, Admiralty.

305.

Your telegram No.68.* I hope to see Admiral Oikawa

when I visit Shanghai about mid-May and will discuss this

question with him. It may however be difficult to obtain an

interview as I am now senior to him and he has persistently

avoided seeing Admiral Yarnell for a similar réason.

1st Lord.

1st S. L.

2nd S.L.

3rd S.I.

4th S.L.

5th S.I

•

D.C.N.S.

A.C.N.S.

PARL.

SEC.

CIVIL LORD.

1225/6.

*Note. Tokyo Tel. 393 to F.0. refers

(about seizure of British Ships by

Japanese at Foochow).

H.

SEC.

NAVAL SEC.

P.A.S.(S).

.D. (3).

D.N.I.(6). M.56 (12).

D. of P.(3).

D.S.9.9. 0.1.C.(3).

Trade Div. (2).

Foreign Office War Office Air Ministry

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to be sent by M. Br.