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OUTWARD TELEGRAM

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Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).

Foreign Office,

No. 7.

6th January, 1940, 11,30 a.m.

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Tientsin telegram io, 421 [of 50th December: control of

currency at Tientsin].

Mr. While has provided some useful material, and I am glad to have his observations. His proposals appear however to go beyond anything we were prepared to contemplate, and I see grave objection to them in their present form. I am enquiring of the Government of Hongkong what measures, if any, are in force thore to prevent gambling in currency, and will let you have y considered views at an early date.

Repeated to Shanghai o. 14, Tientsin ilo. 4.