CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938 — Page 2

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photograph and particulars.

Tro. report of Commission.

10 11.89.

10.11.37.

The Report of the Commission on the alleged

sinking of certain fishing junks off the China coast

does not form pa pleasant reading. The

conclusion of the Commission was that 10 junks were

wantonly attacked and sunk by an armed ship of war

that while peacefully engaged in fishing, with considerable

loss of innocent lives, including those of women and

children se occasioned, and that the attacking vessel

was a submarine belonging to the Imperial Japanese

Navy.

The attack appears to have been conducted

with revolting inhumanity, see particularly paragraph 24 of the Report]

The photograph forwarded in 74 does not add

very much to the Report, but the submarine clearly

corresponds with the descriptions of the attacking

submarine given by the survivors of the junks which

had been sunk.

? Copy 74 and 75 with a copy of the Report

to the F.0. and the Admiralty, reference 56 and 57, that the Soy S. will be glad to lean whether they consedee

and say that the Report should be published.

Copies

of the despatches and of these letters might be sent

MAH. to the War Office, Air Ministry and Board of

Trade, saying that a copy of the Report will be sent

to them when further copies are received from Hong

Kong. [I unfortunately omitted the War Office from

the list for distribution of 55, and they should now

be sent a copy of that telegram.

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