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2nd May, 1939.
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With reference to the recent sciare by the Japanese Bevy of the British ship ages" I have the
honour to transit the enclosed cory of a comunication
fr her MERE.
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lost of the claims can only be Pinally
decided on the roten of the slip to Ing Kongg but you may consider it destruble to Anfor the Japano sa Government that the demtmenge elata is already in the neighbourhood of $27,000 art is increasing with every day of the ship's detention.
I have the hawur to bo,
air,
Your colloney's most obedient servant,
His Britannic Majesty's Ant Assador,
TCKTO.
G. A. S. NORTHCOTE
Governor.