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THIS MARGIN.
Registry
No: F 1779/1696/10
N B.R.
Despatched
FOREIGN CFFICE,
69
February, 1939.
Draft.
Sir R. Craigie,
Tokyo.
Telegram.
No.
Cypher.
Your telegram No. 176 [of the 23rd February:
Japanese aerial attack on Hong Kong 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
Repeat to Shanghai
Hong Kong document, covering (a) apologies offered in Cunton.
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
connexion, Japanese Government may be prepared
NOTHING
to....