CO129-580-2 Sino-Japanese War- British policy and reactions in Hong Kong and Malaya 27-7-1939 - 3-2-1940 — Page 26

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SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET.

From CHINA.

Decypher. Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai),

19th December, 1939.

D.

4.42 p.m.

19th December, 1939.

R.

10.10 a.. 19th December, 1939.

No. 1390.

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IMPORTANT.

My immediately preceding telegram.

The points on which Chiang Kai-shek is likely to require

the latest information are:

1.

2.

British policy towards

а

b

-

-

Russia

Far East

C The possibility of Russia or Japan declaring war

on Great Britain (my telegram No. 97 Tour Series). Assistance to China from the Democracies (my telegram

No. 98 Tour Series, varagraph 5

9).

3. Shipping facilities to Rangoon and Haiphong; supply of munitions; aeroplane factory in Burma; financial help jointly with the United States (my telegram No. 101 Tour Series).

Raison d'être of the French Government [? grp. omtd.] towards the Chinese Government especially with regard to transport supplies through Indo-China (my telegram No. 69 Tour Series).

Addressed to Foreign Office No. 1390 of December 19th,

repeated to Tokyo No. 826.

not to it is or Shove