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SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND WAR CABINET.
To CHINA.
Code and cypher telegram to Mr. Broadmead, (Shanghai).
Foreign Office, 12th November, 1939, 1.00 p.m.
No. 1112.
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MOST IMMEDIATE.
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My telegram No. 1110 [11th November: drawal of garrison from North China].
announcement of with-
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In deference to views of French Government following notice will be substituted for that contained in my telegram under reference for publication in England on morning of November 13th, begins: (R begins)
"His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, who maintain in North China, in accordance with the International Protocol of 1901 certain military forces, have decided for reasons of military convenience arising from conflict in Europe to maintain there only the effectives necessary to
This decision has protect property and to maintain order. been notified to the various Governments who equally maintain garrisons in North China under the 1901 Protocol."
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Repeated to Tokyo No. 774 (most immediate), Tientsin No. 166 (most immediate), Hongkong unnumbered (most immediate), Commander- in-Chief unnumbered (important), Paris No. 428 (important) and Washington No. 763 (important).
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