SECRET.
MESSAGE.
From C. in C. China.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL CYPHER.
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Received:
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Date 28/4/30,
Time 1014.
Addressed Admiralty repeated H.M. Ambassador Shanghai JRO
H.M. Ambassador Tokyo 424, Governor Hong Kong, Commodore Hong Kong, N.L.O. Shanghai.
IMPORTANT.
Salt
275. Tokyo 362 to Foreign Office and N.L.0. telegram
1550 27th April. Unless anticedents of all Chinese
passing are examined it is difficult to see how transport
of Chinese Military in plain clothes can be avoided.
was loaded by civilian labour but as is usual armed
Salt Gabelle guard were in supremacy. Master was informed
by Japanese that two rifles were found in one lighter,
One of a total of 113 on board S.S. SAGRES 73 were on the
crew list and remainder were made up of Compradors staff
cooks boys etc., as is usual on the China Coast.
Japanese made every effort to prove by corresponding tests
that these were soldiers but their failure is illustrated
by release of the whole crew. Ship is registered as
belonging to British Wrykin Hong Company and is under
Charter to Douglas Steamship Company these being
inter-connected by mutual interest of Mr. Williamson.
As usual when they have made a grave error the
Japanese are trying to cloak the main issue that SAGRES
was.T
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