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F

Registry Number

1939

}F 6845/4161/10

FROM Consul-General

Blunt (Canton

No.

88

Dated

22nd June, 1939

CHINA

F 6845 170

5 JUL 1939

Flights of Japanese aircraft over Hong Kong territory.

Refers to his despatch No. 78 (F 6254/4161/10). Encloses copy of despatch No. 117 to Hong Kong stating that Japanese Consul-General has informed him that Japanese naval authorities have been unable to trace any flights by their planes over British territory, and adding that he does not propose to pursue the matter further unless the Governor desires further

Receivery 5th July, 1939 representations to be made.

(Copied Tokyo 38 Shanghai 122.)

F: China.

Last Paper.

F6254

References.

(Minutes.)

If the

Japanese

are

Simply

unwilling

for

reasons

of face

(Print.)

(How disposed of.)

to admit that

in question

wren

they afparently

F14 AM

Julyle

lose

even

more

(Index

(Action completed.)

17/39

Next Paper.

F7885

The aircraft

Таранен

видела

That

they

frestige by

laying them selves open to the

aspersion mentioned by M. Blunt.

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Стру

A.co.

ми 10/m

порт мог

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