CO129-580-1 Sino-Japanese War- handing over of suspected terrorists to Japanese authorities 1-5-1939 - 24-8-1939 — Page 138

NO DISTRIBUTION.

Decypher.

Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai),

30th May, 1939.

D.

5.50 p.m. 30th May, 1939.

R.

11.35 a.m.

30th May, 1939.

No. 486.

21€

138

IMPORTANT.

Tientsin telegram No. 188 to you.

In last paragraph Consul-General suggests that the

instructions I gave to him in accordance with your telegram

9 No. 391 to Shanghai put in grave danger the lives of the British

community.

If this is really so question reduces itself to a choice

between British and Chinese lives in the concession and those

of the four men in question. In that case there can be but

one answer.

Addressed to Foreign Office No. 486, repeated to Tokyo

No. 312 and Tientsin No. 152.