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Reference FO 371/23513
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Arrest and release of Colonel Spear. Murder of Pamela Werner. Lease of new territories of Hong Kong. Expenditure in Hong Kong on refugees from China. Question of provision for widow of Major Scott. Limits of Hong Kong territorial waters. British subjects qualified as interpreters in China. Removal of Air Attaché's office from Shanghai to Chungking. Bombing by Japanese within Hong Kong territory
Date 1939
Collection Foreign Office Files for China, 1938-1948
Countries China, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Japan
Places Beidaihe; Beijing; Burma; Chengdu; Chongqing; France; French Concession; Fuzhou; Germany; Guandong; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guangzhou; Guizhou; Gulangyu; Hankou; Harbin; Hefei; Henan; Hong Kong; Hongkou; Hubei; Italy; Japan; Jiangxi; Jinan; Kashgar; Kowloon; Kunming; Kwantung Leased Territory; London; Macau; Malaya; Mukden; Nanjing; Netherlands; New Territories (Hong Kong); Ningbo; Pearl River; Poland; Qingdao; Shandong; Shanghai; Shantou; Shenyang; Sichuan; Singapore; Tengyue; Tianjin; Tokyo; United Kingdom; United States; Wanzhou; Washington DC; Wuhan; Xiamen; Yangtze River; Yantai; Yili; Yingkou; Yunnan; Zhangjiakou; Zhenjiang
People Carrington, 6th Baron (Peter Carington); Chiang Kai-shek; Knatchbull-Hugessen, Hughe; Owen, David
Topics aircraft; atrocities; banks; bombing; British nationals; broadcasting; business; Catholicism; celebrations; cession (of territory); chamber of commerce; China Inland Mission; Chinese Maritime Customs; Christianity; coal; communications; concession; conference; consulate; customs; defence; disease; drugs; education; embassy; evacuation; exports; extraterritoriality; finances; financial aid; fish; flooding; Health; hospitals; intelligence; investment; judicial system; kidnapping; labour; literature; mining; Minister of Foreign Affairs; missionaries; murder; newspapers; occupation; oil; People's Liberation Army; piracy; police; ports; post office; press; radio; railways; recognition; refugees; religion; reparations; Royal Air Force; salt; science; Secretary of State; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; shipping; steel; sterling; strikes; taxation; tea; telegraphs; tobacco; trade; treaties; United Nations; war; water; weapons; women
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