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Acting Coneul-General H.A.Graves to His Majesty's Ambassador, Shanghai.

British Coneulate-General,

BY SAT HAND.

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No. 7.

Copy.

Copy to Embasay,Tokyo, in

F.L.No.3 of 20/1/39; E..Consul-General, Sh'ai, Foreign Office in P.L.No.5

of 20/1/39.

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Mukden.

Sir,

126 Harbin,

20th January, 1939.

I have the honour to report that Er Ken

TRIL), the Japanese Consul General at

【鶴見憲

Barbin is about to be transferred to Shanghai in the

capacity of First Secretary and Consul.

here will be taken by r Kigen CHICHIDA (

Pis place

)

who is at present Consul General at Vladivostok..

This officer is senior in both grade and Court renk to the present incumbent of the Haruin post.

Mr Teuromi'e new appointment is stated in the press to be a promotion but he himself is not so certain that this is so, although he realise that his work in

Shan, hai will be of a much more important nature.

2.

it is difficult to say what the future of the

Earbin Consulate General is to be.

According to

Er Tsurumi it will increase its political reporting

activities "because of the tension existing between

Japan and Soviet Russia", and will also exercise supervi- sion over the offices at Mutenching and Chiamuesu,

both recently elevated to the rank of Consulate.

Japanese press reporta go so far as to say that the

A

harbin office will henceforth have stan ing equivalent to that of a Legation, and whilst thie ie obviously an absurd statement it does reilect the opinion of a

His Excellency,

Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, K.C.M.G.,

Wie Vajerty'e Ambassauor,

1..

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