No. 95(305/70/38).
Copy to Foreign Office,
Gang Kong
British Embassy,
Tokyo.
8th July, 1938.
Your Excellency,
I communicated informally to His Excellency the
Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 17th June copies
of statements and medical reports which had been laid
before the Governor of Hong Kong in connexion with alleged
piracy and murder on a Hong Kong fishing junk by Japanese
sailors in the vicinity of the Ledrones Islands at no
great distance from Hong Kong territorial waters at about
10.0 a.m. on the rd Key, 1938.
The
2. The fmk in question was a Hong Kong registered
fishing Junk No. 291 H.., details of which were incl:ided
in the documents which I left with 'r. Horinouchi.
allegations in these documents may be summarised as follows:
on the morning of the 3rd Way last this junk, carrying 40
persons (the majority of who were Hong Kong born Chinese),
including women and children, was stated to have been
boarded by armed Japanese in motor-boats which had been
lowered from a Japanese warship: the hands of the people
on board the Junk were stated to have been tied behind their
bnaka: most of the men, women and children were killed and
other women 111-treated; and the junk then set on fire and
abandoned.
3. Although the details of the case have not been
His *xcellency
General Kazushige Ugaki,
H. T... Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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