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From: CHINA.
Sir A. Clark-Kerr (Shanghai)
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1st December 1939.
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Your telegram No.821 to Washington.
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When I was in Chungking the Minister for Foreign Affairs urged that in the event of our withdrawing any more gunboats from occupied China we should also, as a gesture, lay up one or more in free China.
2. I strongly recommend that we should now lay up two of the three in the upper river, leaving one for patrol purposes as may be required. Gunboats at Chungking and Changsha now serve no useful purpose and can well be spared.
3. I have discussed this matter with RAV who is tele-
graphing to the Commander-in-Chief in the same sense.
Addressed to Foreign Office, repeated to Commander-in-
Chief telegram No. 389, Tokyo telegram No.796.
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