1669 (F.99/42/10).
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Cypher telegram to Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai`.
Foreign Office, February 24th 1959, 11.0 p.m.
No. 152.
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Canton telegram No. 18 to Sharghai (of 30th January.
Canton-Kowloon Railway).
we must be careful not to make any arrangement in South China
such as would prejudice our position in regard to British interests
elsewhere in China.
2. Subject to your views I consider that His Majesty's
Consul General should inform his Japanese colleague that His Majesty's Government are unable to suggest any formula without knowing precisely what the Japanese Government have in mind. Their general position in regard to railways in the occupied areas of China is that they look to he Japanese Government to respect British interests in such Tilways and they consider that the assurances given them by the Japanese Government, quite apart from any questions of interna ional law, fully entitle them
to expect this.
Repeated to Governor, Hongkong nnunbered and Consul General,
Canton No.8.
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