No. 88(23, 7% 3 (1)/89,
Your Excellency.
236
British mbacay,
Tokyo.
19th December, 1959
ith reference to Your Excellency's despatches has. 80.81.8% and 87 (1/9158) of Elst
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I have
the honour to trenszit herewith a copy of a sote
which I have addressed to the Japanese rinister for
Foreign Affairs, regarding the recent attacks by
Japanese Naval forces on fishing and trading junka
registered in Hong Kong-
£.
For political reasons I have felt it
inexredient in present circumetanode to make strong
toreount
ns on the subject. I am convinced theS
the only real meane of stopping those attacks ie
by
securing a substantial improvement in Anglo-Jarenese
relatione.
for the first time in months, there
is a real prospect of such an improvement, and I
His "xcelleney
ir Geoffry
Northcote, K.C. O
Governor sud commander-in-Chier.
Dovernment Kouse
Victoria,
Hong Kong,
consider