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operations and should therefore themselves bear the risk of injury.
Risks of injury to British travellers in area where hostilities
are in progress must be borne by travellers.
Risk of injury, to be borne by British subjects, to British
interests is greater in cases where they are not notified to the
Japanese authorities. Validity of transference of property from
Chinese to British ownership even when valid according to British
law is nevertheless to be determined "in special contemplation of"
laws of war.
Japanese Government maintain that in cases where Chinese
forces make use of, or approach near to, British property
responsibility for damage rests with Chinese side.