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6 JUL 1939
NO DISTRIBUTION.
Decypher. Mr. Archer (Peking)
3rd July 1939.
D. W/T
3rd July 1939.
No.100.
R. 9.30 a.m. 6th July 1959.
000000000000000
F
221
F4367
Addressed to Shanghai No.195 of 3rd July.
SECRET.
Secretary and Chief of Police of the Diplomatic quarters who is British subject has received secret warning from a White
Russian whose bona fides he has no reason to doubt that the
White Russian organization formed here by Japanese is planning
to raid the Soviet Embassy premises inside the Quarters.
2. Despite the occupation of the vacant Soviet consular
premises in Tientsin City Municipal Area by White Russians on
June 10th and threats against Quarters mentioned in my telegram
No.129 to His Majesty's Ambassador, Shanghai it is difficult
to believe that the Japanese would at this juncture countenance
such a flagrant infringement of the Diplomatic status of the Soviet Embassy and Diplomatic Quarters but Chief of Police and
I thought it as well to communicate this information to the
United States Embassy here as senior Diplomatic Mission in case
the question (2 grps. undec.] such an eventuality might have to
be considered by the diplomatic body and guards supplied.
3. The present circumstances differ somewhat from those on
the occasion when precautionary measures were taken as reported in Peking telegram to Foreign Office No.432 of 1937 and [gp. undec] from those raids on the Soviet Embassy premises by Chinese authorities reported in paragraph 250 etc. in China Annual Report 1927.
Repeated to the Foreign Office Tokyo, Saving No. 28 (figures by air mail) and Tientsin Saving No.47.
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