CO129-580-2 Sino-Japanese War- British policy and reactions in Hong Kong and Malaya 27-7-1939 - 3-2-1940 — Page 25

SPECIAL AND WAR CABINET.

From: CHINA.

25-

Decypher.

Sir A. Clark Kerr (Hong Kong)

12th November, 1939.

D.

6.15 p..

12th November, 1939.

R.

1.25 p.m.

12th November, 1939.

No. 101. Tour series.

0 0 0 0

IMPORTANT.

My telegram No. 98 Tour series.

I gather that what Chiang Kai-shek has in mind is

roughly as follows:-

1. Some scheme for the financing of the construction

of the Burmese railway section which the Chinese have

already begun on their own.

2. Sustained [sic.] shipping facilities to Rengoon

and Haiphong to which he attaches the greatest importance.

Arms and munitions in increasing quantities as

B

time goes on.

4. Building of an aeroplane factory in Burma, with

or without Chinese co-operation, production [? from]

which would be shared between ourselves and the Chinese.

Financial help, provided that Chine gets it from

5.

United States also.

He would base this last request upon the statement

said to have been made by Your Lordship to the Chinese

Ambassador just before the War, and since confirmed by

Your Lordship, to the effect that as regards China,

His Majesty's Government would be ready to go as far as,

and as fast as, the United States Government.

Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 101; repeated to Shanghai No. 165, Tokyo No. 41, Hong Kong No. 25, Governor of Singapore No.7, Chungking No. 22, Commander-in-Chief No. 15.