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OUTWARD TELEGRAM Under Secretary

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Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo)

No. 486.

Foreign Office. 26th May, 1940.

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6.00. a.il.

Your despatch No.197 [(4/725/40) of the 11th April: Action against Cheng Kec Company].

Provided that the Governor of Hongkong confirms that further legal remedies are still open to the Japanese interests concerned, we concur in the terms of your proposed reply.

Repeated to Hongkong No. 44.