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the Imperial Airways will shortly be making a survey

ef flights, and that arrangements for a regular

service will depend on the results of this survey).

The Governor's reply to this request from

Tokyo is registered at (3). He reminds

Sir R. Craigie that Imperial Airways regularly make

an official communication of the details of their

timetables both to the Japanese Consul General in

Hong Kong and to the Japanese Naval Attaché at

Shanghai.

5(b)

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According to information received in

Shanghai from the Commercial Secretary, Hong Kong,

it then appeared that the C.N.A.C. service between

Hong Kong and Chungking had not been entirely

discontinued, but would be carried on intermittently.

The telegram from Canton at 5(c) then

reports that the Japanese Consul General has

notified the Consular body very urgently that the

notification reported to the Governor of Hong Kong

at 1(b) applies in full to a radius of 15 nautical

miles of Weichow Island in the Gulf of Tongking for

third power aircraft whether by day or by night.

By now he has lodged a written protest.

information is interesting in view of the incident

reported in the press that on January 31st an

Imperial Airways machine, named "Delia" was fired on

by the Japanese near the Island of Weichow. The

Governor of Hong Kong was asked yesterday by telegram

for a report on this incident.

This

In their letter registered at (1) the

F.0. seek our concurrence in the proposed reply to

Canton, viz. that Mr. Bhunt's action is approved

(see A above), and that no further steps require

to be taken.

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