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Sir R. Craigie. (Tokyo).
October 23rd, 1937.
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5.17. p.m. October 23rd, 1937.
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10.45. a. n. October 23rd, 1937.
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579.
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Commander-in-Chief's telegram No. 555 to Admiralty.
I agree that we must insist in season and out on Japanese responsibility but I earnestly hope that no change will be made in procedure of unofficial notification mentioned in his paragraph 3. Unless attack from the air can be abolished by international agreement we have got to face the fact that even when objectives are purely military danger to non-combatants must be greater than from older form of legitimate military operations. This danger can however be mitigated by adopting all possible methods to facilitate identity of British ships motor cars etc. when ? grp.omtd] has been given the chance of obtaining punishment of aviators for negligence is greater and it is primarily through punishment in appropriate cases that risk of negligence can be (? diminished).
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 579 of October 23rd, repeated to Nanking and Shanghai, (for Commander-in-Chief telegram No. 142).
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