CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940 — Page 71

all rights should be reserved, and that the effective

opening of the river by mutual agreement should be

ber aptly mummed up the gene

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pressed for. One

feeling of the

3.

No sooner had I

*Timeo Danaoa et dona ferente

eturned to Cinton than I was

confronted with the two new developew nts reported in my

#morandum of p41 92nd

telegram Ho. 82 of April 24th. I analose (enclosure :10.1)

a copy of the Supplementary

regarding the low ing and discharging of ships at Canson.

This again produces the regular Japanese attempts to

extend their esatrol over äri tish ahi ping; the require-

ment that mil lighterage shall be in the hands of a tono-

all

poly ¡Myti sularly obnoxious, nor is it ren

le by the m

loa that kemura.

«lthough it is dated

wire should join the Association.

April #nd, it was not until the afternoon of the 23rd

that this forumat

sved in m. offi

By

time 3 "7ataban" had already a^rived; the Japanese

genda mer is insisted that all goods carried should be

bandled by the monopoly, In point of fact the stewwr

was not darrying any cargo, but only stores for ahmanan

as provided for in paragraph 5 (b) of the Bluni-jiem saki

The gerinmarie insisted that these store N

#. Butterfield a dwi

tould not be hsailed by

lightera, but were eventually over-ruled by the Jaya asse

naval re:ɔrosentativna.

other new development was the presenta ti on

to mm by the

fe easme Consul-ene al, on t

4p 11 84th,

morning

the enclosed immorandum (anolosure fo. 2)

requiring the stationing of Japanese gunđa on the pre-

mises of tenure. Masterfield & Swire's wher", and etating

that until this was agreed to, the

riggeramatm for the

earriage of ergo could not be put into aɛeration. I made