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POSTAGRAM or MESSAGE (Delete as

R WAR REGISTRY USE ONLY.

necessary)

PASS TO :-

ADDRESSED

The Commander-in-Chief, China.

Repeated: R.A. Yangtse.

H.M. Ambassador, Shanghai. H.M. Ambassador, Tokyo.

OUT.

51

DATE 30. 11. 39.

SENT

Cypher or Confidential Code or Non-Confidential Code or Plain Language

From Admiralty.

F12329/3918/10

Delete as necessary.

My 0952/30, gunboats in Japanese controlled waters

of Yangtse may now be withdrawn as convenient. H.M.S.

PETEREL should, if convenient, be first to be withdrawn.

Request you will report withdrawal dates in advance.

You should inform Ambassadors Shanghai and Tokyo

Notification ba 6 when you propose to notify Japanese. You shou

shuala stat Japanese that while H.M. Government cannot admit that any

consideration of international law relating to Chinese

neutrality overrides treaty right to maintain gunboats on

Yangtse, they propose in view of requirements elsewhere to

withdraw according to convenience.

simultaneously informed of decision.

Italians should be

Head of H.

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