[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be
returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]
(F.1779/1696/10.)
TO JAPAN.
Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
Foreign Office.
No. 95.
24th February, 1939.
4.50 p.m.
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IMPORTANT.
Your telegram No. 176 [of the 23rd February: Japanese
aerial attack on Hongkong leased territories].
I authorise you to accept settlement on the lines indicated,
but as a matter of practical convenience and in order to have
all the assurances in writing I suggest that Japanese reply should be consolidated in one document, covering (a) apologies
offered in paragraph 3 of Note given in your telegram No. 173
[of the 23rd February: F.1747/1696/10], (b) compensation
offered in same paragraph, (c) disciplinary measures referred
to in Vice-Minister's message given in your telegram under
reference, (d) assurances about non-repetition given verbally
to you by Minister for Foreign Affairs as reported in your
telegram No. 174 [of the 23rd February: F.748]. In this con-
nexion Japanese Government may be prepared to repeat promise
of forty-eight hours' notice of intended operations near
frontier. This is not essential, but it should be included
if possible.
To this Note you could reply that you are instructed by
His Majesty's Government to regard the incident as having been
settled on these terms.
repeated to Shanghai No. 151
Addressed to Tokyo No. 95; Hongkong unnumbered and Canton No. 7.