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Foreign Office No.9,
No.2,
No.4.
No.1,
Hongkong Shanghai
Chungking
Commodore H'Kong No.1.
(1/72D(1)/41)
NT
My dear Vice-Minister,
BRITISH Baldevand a 3
TOKYO.
January 10th, 1941.
I write to draw Your Excellency's atten- tion to a series of official representations from this Embassy, ending in our Note No.97 of the 10th
May on the subject of interference with Hongkong junks by Japanese armed vessels.
These representa- tions, which have been made at inter als since the beginning of the hostilities in China, have never slicited any satisfactory reply, nor had the slight- eat effect on the continuance of these attacks. In
the eirgumstances I cen hardly think that
representations in question san have reached any really authoritative quarter either in the inistry of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of arine, and I therefore venture to draw your Excelisney's per- sonal attention to the question, and to enclose a sumary of further instances of such interference.
I find it hard to believe that the Japanese
His Xxcellency
Mr.
.
Chuichi Chmahi,
Hi I perial Japanese Najesty'
Government
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