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and that local authorities, whose senior

representatives General Ando and Admiral Kondo

were respectively Military and Naval Attaches

in London, are friendly disposed, and always

and everywhere subject to Japan's paramount

interests, would welcome some salution of

Pearl River questions which could divorce them

from those of Yangtse River. I think our best

policy is still to wait and see say, for two

months more. Our local wrongs do not seem to

compare with those elsewhere in most occupied

areas, mostly I suspect because the presence

of foreigners is neither of sufficient

importance nor embarrassment to the Japanese.

Repeated to Foreign Office No. 3,

Governor Hongkong No.5, Commander-in-Chief No. 2,

Tokyo No.2.