CO129-580-3 Sino-Japanese War- anti-Japanese activities in Hong Kong 23-8-1939 - 30-12-1939 — Page 41

By Safe Hand

25th September, 1939.

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My dear Ambassador,

I attach a memorandum of interview which I had

with General Fu Te-Chen yesterday.

As you probably know,the Japanese are muttering

a lot about the anti-Japanese attitude of Hong Kong and I

want to prevent them having more grounds for their grous es

than is inevitable. I do not know quite what General Yu is

up to here but if, as I suspect, it is more or less what I

reprobated to him, I trust that the Generalissimo will be

asked to forbid such 'goings on'. It would be a poor

return for what we have tried to do for China if,within

freety

the shelter that we have fittingly given them,Chinese

Government Agenta should brew trouble for us vis-a-vis the

Japanese.

I am sending copies of this letter and enclosure

to the Colonial Office and to Prideaux Brune for information.

Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, K.C.M.G.,

H.M. Ambassador to China,

British Embassy,

Shanghai.

Yours sincerely,

SGD. G.A.S. NORTHCOTE

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