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F1265741

13 DEC 1939

SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET,

From CHINA.

Decypher.

Sir A. Clark Kerr (Shanghai)

13th December, 1959.

D.

11.44 8..,

13th December, 1939.

R.

5.30 a.m., 13th December, 1959.

No. 1565.

*

螨

not get read

IMMEDIATE.

My telegram No. 1362.

12644

In view of Admiralty telegram to Commander-in-Chief No. 152

Shanghai communicated to me at 9.50 a.1. [grp. findec.] time today,

i.e., half hour before notifications were apparently being made

to the press in Tokyo and London, I had no choice but to instruct

F12538 Chungking to act in accordance with your telegram No. 1209 to me.

Addressed to Foreign Office, repeated to Tokyo telegram

No. 814, Commander-in-Chief telegram No. 595 and Rear-Admiral

Yangtze telegram No. 121.

5.

13

DEC

2.0. REL

1939

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