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No. 7.
Copies to:
Shanghai, P.1. 3.
Mukden. Harbin.
British Consulate,
DAIREN.
31st January 1939.
192
F10254/14/10
sir,
With reference to the concluding paragraph of my
despatch No. 58 of 26th July 1938 regarding rumours of an
impending change in the status of the Kwantung leased
Territory, I have the honour to transmit a copy of an extract
from an article entitled "A Review of the Thirty-year
Japanese Administration of the Kwantung Leased Territory
and the S.M.R. Zone" which has appeared in the English
language quarterly "Contemporary Manchuria" for the current
month. The article is signed by the initials "T.N." which
may be those of Mr. T. Nakanishi, one of the directors of
the South Manchuria Railway Company, who publish the
periodical.
2.
His Excellency
The writer seems to suggest that, apart from
He
any change in the legal status of the Territory, its
industries and agriculture will in future be brought still
more closely into line with those of Manchoukuo.
mentions a projected "Kwantung Leased Territory Planning
Ordinance" as an instrument for achieving this result, and
I see no reason to doubt that such an ordinance may be under
consideration in Tokyo. "From this ordinance" he states,
"it is construed that the important industries in the
His Majesty's Ambassador,
TOKYO.
Leased
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