CO129-579-8 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 23-6-1939 - 4-1-1940 — Page 3

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56. £0.

£6255/79/10

Govt.

3.7.39

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Ref. 36. - Los of deep 79 of 7.6.39 from Canton re Pearl River in Agreement regarding for chartered

Vessels.

an

This despatch from Caution to

Hongkong

is

amplification of the information we had

дни

already

received

by telegrams from Carton

registered at (51) + (52) on Part I.

The agreement between th. Blunt & th. Okazaki

for navigatin

on the Pearl River fonus encloven 5

to the Canton despatch repisted at (36) on Part I.

It is

quite

clear that the 'Shirogane Mam

case was an

attempt to set up

a remunerative

prussenger transport service on the Peal River at

a

time when the Japanese enjoyed

monopoly

a virtual

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It is in

interesting

to note that Mr. Blunt consides.

that the Japanese love far

of the agrement than we do.

the ofpinion that it is no

more

by the cancellation

But he is also f

layer possible to

fet a separate solution of the Peat River problem,

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