"OPY.
(F_707/43/10)
No. 22.
Copy to Peking.
British Embassy,
Tokyo.
January 12th, 1928.
sir,
209.
I have the honour to inform you that on receipt
of a telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, China Station,
I enquired of the Japanese Government on the 6th instant
whether Captain Maxwell-Scott in H.M.S. "Bruce", with two
destroyers, might proceed to the Pescadores in order to
discuss with Japanese Commander at Makau the question of
a joint Anglo-Japanese patrol of Bias Bay for the
suppression of pirates.
2. I now transmit translation of a note which I
have received in reply stating that Japanese Kinistry of
Marine would prefer to let the Commander of the "Uji"
discuss the question with the British Naval Authorities.
3. I mentioned the matter to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs again on the 10th January, but it is
not one in which His Excellency ever shows any interest.
I have, etc.,
(Signed) John Tilley.
The Right Honourable
Sir Austen Chamberlain, K.0., M.P.,
eto.,
etc.,
etc.
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