CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938 — Page 9

No. 18 (35/70/38)

British Embassy,

Tokyo.

10th February, 1938.

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Your Excellency,

I have the honour to inform you that I did

not fail to inform His Majesty's Government of the

contents of Your Excellency's Note No.5 of the 12th

January concerning the violation of the territorial

waters of Hongkong on the 11th December by a Japanese

destroyer.

2.

Under instructions from His Majesty's

Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs I

have the honour to inform Your Excellency that His

Majesty's Government have taken note that the Imperial

Japanese Government have dealt appropriately with those

responsible for the unwarrantable proceedings of the

Japanese destroyer in question and have sent in-

structions providing against a recurrence of such inci-

dents.

5.

There are certain points, however, in Your

Excellency's note under reference which are not clear

to His Majesty's Government. Detailed reports, sup-

ported by photographs, have now been received from His

Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, and I have the

honour to transmit to Your Excellency the substance of

His Excellenay

Mr. Koki Hirota,

H.I.J.M. Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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