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Large-Scale Hostilities in China RECOGNISED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT NEED OF MAINTAINING PUBLIC ORDER NOTED (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, July 24. The official text of llie agreement reached in Tokio between the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, and the Japanese Foreign Minister, Air Arita, is as follows: — “His Majesty’s Government recognises the actual situation in China, where large-scale hostilities are in progress, and notes that as long as that state of affairs continues the Japanese forces in China will have special requirements for the purpose of safeguarding their own security and maintaining public order in regions under their control, and will have to suppress or remove any acts or causes such as will obstruct them or benefit the enemy. “His Majesty’s Government does not have the intention of countenancing any acts or measures prejudicial to settlement, of the above-mentioned objects by the Japanese forces, and takes this opportunity to confirm its policy in this respect by making plain.to the British authorities in British and national China that they should refrain from such acts and measures.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1939, Page 5
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179TEXT ISSUED IN LONDON Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1939, Page 5
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