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informed me that no further requests for visita of ritish
psssen er vesucia to anton would be entertained. Yesterday
afternoon I received on officiel corsauniqɛtion from Br.
ckunzi info min me that the Japanese authorities regretted
that they had to cancel their agreement (previouěly given in
writing) to the sailing of the "ratehen“ "roa
anton to
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Hongkong on 8th June "in view of the feet
initiallmf by kr. okazɛki má myself) on 18th ebruary, 1939,
is no longer respected by the ritish suthorities".
"Tatsaan" hru, of course, meanwhile arrived from longkong.
i also received a similar ictter from the depanese naval
authorities. Ister år. Ukazaki ent for outer's representative
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ve him an official statement which, aft r ainor comment
by myself, was telegraphed to Hongzong.
Bec kr.
This morning I sent br. soting onsal aryan to
kuzuki and endeavour to pepson with him. I wished
to make it perfectly clear that I was in no way sctia Con
trary to the spirit or the letter of the agreemant in wishing
to refer the question of the "suiroganearu" to Your
Excellency, and that I considered his sudden cancellation
of his previously ivan official written agrement to the
sailing of the "Fatshen, after she had already arrived at
nton, as a serious and entirely unjustified reach of faith.
The interview proved to be completely fruitless es sir. kasaki
contended that the "Shirogane Mor was fully covered both
by the letter and spirit of the treemont that Jonditions
(d) to (c) page 8 of the reement were never intended to
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apply to shuttle services such as this ship would perfom,
that the fact that this snip was a cmittedly of a type not
previously used, or mentioned, had nothing whatever to do
with the matter, and, that the #greement was a personal
matter vetveen himself end me, the fulfillment of which
needed no Terence to anyone else. He contended that as I
wes not willing to secept these contentions and had put then
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