No. 107
Copies to!=
Forei n frice, So. 79
H.
(a 2 copies)
hanghai, H. 112
(& 2 copies)
Tokyo, No. 34
Commander-in-Chief, No. 17
Como lore, K ongkong, No. 10
British onsulate-lene el,
MTON
7th June, 1939.
Genior Neval
Ticer,
40.12
74.
sir,
©ith reference to my tel
(51) + (52)
136 of 6th
June and 137 of 7th June I have the honour to infor
Your excallency that, on my return from dọn kong to
∙nton on 27th Day lost I noticed s amell white vessel
with yellow funnel fiying the Japanese m: rohent ensign
lying at buoys œpposite hameen. This vessel I at firat
took to be a yacht.
Che wee of very modern construction,
streamlined fore and aft. ubsequent info mation to the
effect that she was intended to inauurste a regılar
Japanese paasonger service either bet
kong and Baeso or
Centon, Hon
anton end
osa vi
acao
was contained in pare: :raph six of my despatch No. 20 of
3rd Juna to the fomercial Counsellor at
hanghai hich
wee copied to Your anellency as my despatch ho. 106. in
90th Bay this vessel moved from her moorings to the wharf
normally used by the Tung in Stesmonip
anton vecsela.
mpany's Hongkong
This wharf, while chinese property, is
team hip company and its
on long lease to the Tung on
ise by the local øgents of thi: vessel, who appear to be
the
Baks Shosen wisha, under inetrictions which they
are alleged to have received from the local Japanese naval
authorities, have formed the subject of separate virbal
representations to my Japanese allesgue, at whose request
in er h last, I had specified in writing the ritish
interests in this wharf and who had assured me verbally that
they had been noted, while confining himself in writing to
an assurance tha he had passed my proofe to the Japanese
Kis \xcellency
dir Geoffry Northcote, N.
lovernor,
(authorities
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