Copy.
Information given by Captain of S.S.SHARNHORST
at Manilla to Consulate General, Uchiyama.
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At the point 7.5 miles, 205 from Pedro Blanco,
about 50 miles from Hong Kong, rescued 9 men, 1 woman.
There was no sign that they were attacked by submarine.
The Captain heard nothing from them because the
Captain and the crew never understand these people's
language. At Hong Kong the Captain was never visited
by police or newspaper people, and he was surprised
finding the account of the Japanese submarine in the
newspapers on the following day.
It was officialy stated by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs in Tokio that on the 22nd, on which date
submarine attack was supposed to have taken place, only
a certain number of Japanese submarines were training
off Bakow and all the others were in the home waters.