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Registry

1939

Number 9905/3139/10.

TELEGRAM FROM

Mr. Lamb, Peking.

No. 230 Decypher.

Dated 5th Sept. 1939. Received

in Registry 8th Sept.1939

F:

China.

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CHINA

F 9905 220

8 SEP 1939

Japanese enquiry as to status of British troops in China.

Addressed to Tokyo telegram No. 113 of 5th September. Following from General Piggott. During the course of conversation with General Muto he raised the question quite informally of the status of British troops "in China" meaning "occupied China" on the assumption that Japan announced her strict neutrality in European war. Beljeves it was friendly hint that both His Majesty's Government and Japan should examine the legal and political issues involved. Repeated to Shanghai No. 366.

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USUAL CIRCULATION

(Minutes.)

This

was a

veiled allusion

(Print.)

(How dispos SEP 1939 USUAL CIRCULATION

presumably to the imminence

the "friendly suggation" that

We should withdraw ou

(see Tokyo tel. no. 1170).

troops

(Action completed.)

(Index.)

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