CO129-580-3 Sino-Japanese War- anti-Japanese activities in Hong Kong 23-8-1939 - 30-12-1939 — Page 45

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(F 10470/176/23)

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3/10.

Dear Cent,

FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

4th October, 1939.

With reference to our official printed letter

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To. F. 10070/2655/10 of the 14th September, I enclose

a copy of a letter from Mr. Arthur Edwardes, the

unofficial representative in London of the puppet

Government of Manchuria, to the Parliamentary Under-

Secretary of State about a possible approach by the

Japanese Consul-General at Hong Kong to the Government

of the Colony.

2. While Edwardes is perhaps inclined to see the

Japanese policy in a rather too optimistic light,

it seems to us that it should be possible to do

something to meet a Japanese request for the control

of anti-Japanese activities in Hong Kong and that it

might afford a basis for the discussion of outstanding

difficulties with regard to the Colony.

In any

case, having regard to the determination of His

Majesty's Government to seek all possible means of

G. E. J. Gent Esq., D. 5.0., 0. B. E.,

improving/