HONG KONG ROUTE
LITTLE IMPORTANCE
REOPENING IN HANDS OF GOVERNOR
(Britisb Official Wireless.) (Received October 18, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, October 17. With regard to the route by which supplies formerly reached China via Hong Kong, an assurance was given Japan at the time of the conclusion of the Burma Road agreement that the decision for its closure taken by the Governor of Hong Kong many months earlier would be respected.
This assurance lapses with the Burma Road agreement. In fact, owing to dispositions of the Japanese land and sea forces, the Hong Kong road is now of little practical importance, but the assurance referred to having lapsed, the obligation regarding its closure is removed and it remains for the Governor of Hong Kong to decide in the light of local circumstances whether it should be reopened.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 95, 18 October 1940, Page 7
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