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25th September, 1987.

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Dear Sir Starry

le below

You will already have seen Tokyo telegram

No. 417, of the 21st September, giving the reply of

the Japanese Govern sent to our protest against the

action of a Japanese destroyer in firing upon a Chinese

customs vessel when within the territorial waters of

Hong Kong. The second case to which the reply refers (and in which the latitude should presumably be 22°, not

25°) does not concern us, since we never suggested that

there was here any violation of territorisl waters.

The former case (in which, by a typing error, the

latitude was given as 81° 27.4 minutes, instead of

22° 27.4 minutes) is the one with which we are concerned.

The Admiralty have come to the conclusion that the

po...ition given by the Japanese is just outside the

extreme limit of what can be claimed as the territorial

Sir Henry Moore, K.C.M.G.

Colonial Office.

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