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1939

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CHINA

F 2149

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3 MAR 1939

Registry Number

F 2149/1888/10

FROMSir R. Craigie

(Tokyo)

No. 36 (36/70/39)

1939.

3rd March,

1939.

Dated 26th Jan:

Received

in Registry

F: China.

Last Paper. F1888

References.

(Print.)

(How disposed of.)

14. no

(end. in orig.) Mar 11

Situation in Hong Kong.

Transmits copy of report No. 1 from the Military Attaché recording a conversation with Mr. Nakamura, late Consul-General at Hong Kong, who gave his views on the Hong Kong situation as a resut of the Japanese expedition to Canton.

Mr. Nakamura said that Japanese trade through Hong Kong was difficult without better control of anti-Japanese activities. He praised the British officials in Hong Kong. Sir A. Clark Kerr was unpopular in Japan through the lurid accounts of his conversation with Chinese Government officials.

(Copies to Shanghai No. 24, Hong Kong No. 2.)

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(Minutes.)

to blame for anything that- Causes a deterioration in Auplo-Japanese relations, And who sends the "highly-coloured and sxaggerated accounts of Six A. Clark. Hen's conversations to Japan?

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JAC/3 Candy Chantie

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