CO129-563-16 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 6-9-1937 - 13-11-1937 — Page 16

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Enquiries under the Commissiones Powns Ordinance 1886 were no doubt untended to

be held in respect of limits of the Colony;

matters within the

in the circumstances

hut couppose there

can in no objection to howing

an

Enqui

under the Adnianes un connection with the

junks outside

Sinking of Chinese fishing

the Colous is. of the tenitorial waters thereof. The only oljser apparently,

And therefore, of course, the limits outside the jurisdiction

of the Colony,

H.D.

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is to collect information (¿¿. dates and other details) for purposes of record.

Japce, therefore, with the action prepaid

30/9/37

11. Duncan.

that is the point

m

It is for F.0. to say whether there is

any objection to holding an enquiry which

the Japanese may regard as directed to the

censure of their activities outside of the

jurisdiction of Hong Kong; and we should obtain concurrence of F.0. and Admiralty

in our reply.

agree

Am.

38.9.

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