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SECRET.

BY CAFE HAID.

Copies to: 5.7 .,hanghai (No.13.

Secretary of State for

the blonies.

sir,

Government House,

Hong Kong.

23

2nd November, 1933.

I have the honour to refer to my secret telegram 7.95 of 21st N ve ber, 1959, regarding the attack on the crew of Hong Kong Jun: No.2012 1.7. and to forward for your information the accompanying further rapere:

(1) A suwary of the further evidenco investigated with perticiler reference to the theories that the attackers

night have been pirates or private onesies.

onartments,

(11) Copy of departmental minutes between the Secretariat

for Chinone ffairs and the olice and are ar

Hong Kong, regarding requests for compensation by persons alloging they were victims of Japanese attacks.

(iii)

Comy of departmental minutes between the Secretariat for Chinese Tairs and the Police Department, Ing Kong, regarding further attenta to establish the identity of the

attacking vessel in the present case.

(tv) Copies of further statements by three the

witnessos.

2. As I said in my telege under reference it appears most unlikely that the attackers in this case were pirates

or private erenion. The evidence points t the attacking ship having been some kind of Japanese auxiliary ship, th wh

His Britannic Majesty's "mbassador,