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Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the secretary
of State for the Colonies.
Dated 23rd May, 1938, Received 6-35am 23rd May, 1938.
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No.133.
Addressed to the Secretary for the Colonies
No. 133 of the 23rd May repeated to Tokyo No. 53 Embassy Shanghai No.84 Commander in Chief No. 3. I am informed
that on the 17th May the Japanese armed motor trawlers
attacked smell fishing boat in British Territorial waters
2-2 latitude 21 degrees 21 minutes
58 seconds north
longitude 113 degrees 51 minutes 48 seconds east 1.e.
about one and a quarter miles south south west of Tongkwa
light. Three of the crew were taken ashore on island
Lintin Chinese territory, and blindfolded by four
Japanese sailors who then decapitated one and so injured
another that he died an hour later
Third was severely
cut about the neck but is still alive in Kowloon Hospital
in critical condition. Full statement will be sent at
beith earliest possible moment probably establishing British eight
of victims.