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1939

RegistryF 13033/3361/

Number

FROM

10 Colo nial Office

F

CHINA

F15055

200

28 DEC 1930

Chinese warships in Hong Kong harbour.

Refers to Foreign Office letter of 1st July

(F 6330/3361/10) Transmits copy of Hong Kong despatch

No. 86 to Shanghai reporting that Japanese have raised the question of disarming the Chinese warships and that in view of present circumstances it appears difficult to refuse. Encloses descriptive particulars of the three vessels and proposes that Chinese Duled 27th Dec : 1939. |Government should be requested to order officers in

charge to disarm as specified.

(Copy:

No. 7230/1/39

Receiveistry} 28th Dec :

in

F: China.

1939.

:

Admiralty, War Office.)

(Action

Last Paper.

FIBO14

References.

(Print.)

(How disposed of.)

completed.)

M

94/460

Index.)

膨

Next Paper.

= 177/147/10/60

(Minutes.)

Figg885918/10.

In his telegram No. 1397 (about gunboats on the Upper Yangtze) Su A. Clark Kerr Staked that he had hesitated to act on

wa

д

the Governor's suggestion until he was in a position to inform the Ch Goot of Huss intention to las up

one or two the gunboats on the upper River was done on 25th December and the was is therefore

15 act.

now clear

for

Though there is legally

this

Su A. Clark Kerr

no state

war between China and Japan these Chineze gunboats have already been over 25 years in Hong Kong, and this situation cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. I do not

aus

think however that

instructions 15 Sn A. Clark Kerr in the matter are

No showin ཐ

Gen". Dept

20009 9/39 F.0.1.

required.

Ou scott 7/1

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