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TRANSLATTON
from:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
No.39
NOTE VEREALE
The Imperial Japanese Ministry of
Foreign Affairs have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of the Note No. 27 addressed by
His Excellency the British Ambassador to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 30th January.
The Ministry hasten to state in reply
that they have referred to the authorities
concerned the case of the damage alleged in the
Note under reply to have been suffered by a
fishing and trading junk as a result of an
attack by a Japanese Naval vessel, together with
the various cases which formed the subject of
Note No.251 of the 19th December last, and that
they are now being investigated. The Ministry
will have the honour to reply further when this
investigation has been completed.
(Seal of Gaimusho)
February 26th, 1940