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30 OCT 1939

Registry Number

FROM

F 11348/3361/10 Situation in Hong Kong.

Mr. Patterson

(Matheson and Company)

Dated

Received

to Mr.Howe.

25th Oct.,

in Registry 30th Oct., 1939.

Quotes extracts from a letter received from their agent in Hong Kong regarding a) the possibility of the violation of the Hong Kong border by Japanese troops b) the return of T.V.Soong from Chungking where he was very amicably received and c) a rumoured American loan to China.

F: China,

Last Paper.

F18903

References.

(Print.)

(How disposed of.)

We

wer

(Minutes.)

informed

ed i

in September

by Sui. A. Clark - Kean that there

a movement on

Whisky

foot to oust Dr Kung.

This movement appears from

a subsequent

Ift Me Betterson Alegram to have been quashed & Sii.A.

Кведнаш

(Rather of a Co). Clark-Kenn

Nov.

(Action completed.)

(Index.)

Next Paper.

F11383

while C-K-S

stated that while

was prepared to base allow T. V. Soong

to collaborate over economic problems, be

was

not

prepared

hun to have him as

to Dr Kung. Ift to the Patterson Sa prze. Hemmer. Major.

Si I

18560 2/39 F.O.P

роз

3.11.

Successor

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