RECOPETINO OF POLNI RIVERA
Japanese proposals
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British Consul«te-General,
CARTO
5th March, 1940.
BY RAPLAND.
sir,
21/390
with reference to my telegram No. 24 of March 2nd,
I have the honour to report that in the course of an
interview with the Japanese Consul General on the previous
day I bronched the question of the re-opening of the earl
kiver shu naked ny Japanese colleague when this would take
plsos, in view of the feat that the additional Japaneno
staff for the Customs had arrived the previous day. A8
usu«l, he would not give a definite date, but said that it
would take pinec very soon: he then said that it wes the
intention that atentere should at first oerry export cargo
only sná saked me if i could let him have a memorandum giving
my ideas on this point. e had, in the early part of JanMULATY,
when there was no indiastion that the re-opening of the river
might take place at any dato, discussed the possibility of
interim mosaures for recoving sore of the restrictions, and
kr. Kite had then indicated the cerringe of export asrgo es
a feasible first step. I therefore now told nim that this
was contemplated as a measure of relief prior to the opening
of the river, and that far more wan looked for when the river
was opened.
2.
Leter in the smƉe day I had an opportunity of
discussing the matter with Kr. Little, the Commissioner
of Custon
In the meanti
he bad met
Ko teudeira,
the Japanese Conaul, at a cocktail party, when the latter
had hended to him a copy of the temporary agreement enclosed
in Er. Blunt's despatch ko. 129 of July 1 th leat to the
His Majesty's brasador,
British mossBy,
Governor/
BRANGHAI.
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