No. SECRET.
AIR MAIL.
Copy to Tokyo No.11.
5'3835.0
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
14th March, 1938.
(100)on 5-3838/10/37
Aduy. 3.
Sir,
I have the honour to refer to paragraph 2 of
your secret despatch of the 7th of January, 1938, and to
inform you that steps are being taken to draw up a claim
for compensation in such detail as is possible on behalf
of the British subjects involved in the sinking of certain
fishing junks by a Japanese submarine in September last.
2.
Some further delay is to be expected in view of
the absence at sea of some of the witnesses.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
I at kalah
Governor.
Copy to Go
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Gr
îm.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
6.