CO129-580-1 Sino-Japanese War- handing over of suspected terrorists to Japanese authorities 1-5-1939 - 24-8-1939 — Page 44

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Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the

Orotary of State for the Colonies.

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O. REGI

Dated 16th August, 1939.

1939. Received 9.16.8.3. 16th August.

TRT decode.

No. 228.

Addressed to Mission at Chungking telegran

Repeated to

No. 20 of the 16th August/Shanghai telegram 11o. 86

Secretery of State for the Colonies telogran No. 228.!

British newspaper 15th August published

statement apparently derived from Chungking that for two days Hong Kong vernacular press was forbidden to

publish news of handing over the four men at Tien-tsin, ? ?

?

H.H.Government's explanation or the Chinese Foreiga

Office protest.

If such statement is current in

Chungking it may be denied us totally untrue.

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