STRONGER FLEET IN THE EAST
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Britain's Attitude if Vital Interests Are Attacked JAPANESE & HONGKONG
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(Eeceived 21, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. zil. The Daily Mail's diploinatic corrc'spondent says: "The Bl'itish Cabinet does not desire to cause unnecessary piovocation in the present delicate situation, but, if vital British interests are further threatened, the strengthening of the navy in the Far East on a large scale is likely. Mr ^Neville Chamberlain is expeeted to indieate this attitude by repeating Mr Anthony Eden's declaration of the intention to defend British posSessions." Mr Vernon Bartlett, in the NewsChronicle, writes: "Nobody iii Lond/m expects a direct attack on Hongkong, which is British-leased territory, but the Japanese ambition cCrthiiily fijms at destroying British, American and other white races ' interests in China, as they could do. regarding Hongkong, by draining its iifebiood through the capture of Canton while puppet Governments put on the pressure in other parts of China."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 75, 21 December 1937, Page 5
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