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junks were in fact set on fire in the position 22° 25′ 48′′ north latitude and 115° 51' east longitude. But the wind and tide during the afternoon in question could not have carried those junks from the position north of Lingting Island in a south-easterly direction towards British terri- torial waters, i.e. towards the position where the junks There is thus described in the British note were found.
no conflicting evidence, but it is clear that the junks found by the British police officer were not those referred
As there was incontrovertible to in the Japanese note, evidence of these junks having also been set on fire by Japanese and as they could only have drifted to the point eventually reached from a point inside British territorial waters, it is evident that an incident not referred to by the Japanese Government had occurred inside British terri-
torial waters.
His Majesty's Ambassador, in his note of the 27th April, set out these conclusions in detail and requested
In another note of reconsideration of the whole matter.
the same date is niesty's Ambassador presented a claim for compensation which, in view of the expense involved by the necessity for taking special measures to protect British territorial waters, was assessed at ongkong $13,000.
notes.
No reply has been received to either of these
AS IV.
Piracy, Murder, etc., committed by Japanese
sailors on a Junk from Hongkong in the vicinity
of the Ladrones on the 3rd May, 1938.
On the morning of the 3rd way, 1958, junk to.291 HW, carrying forty persons, the majority of whom were Hongkong-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
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