CO129-570-13 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on a fishing junk 23-5-1938 - 10-12-1938 — Page 53

(F 6827/19/10)

NO DISTRIBUTION.

Code telegram to Sir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).

Foreign Office,

No. 439. (R).

30th June, 1938, 5.15 p.m.

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Hongkong telegram No. 133 to Secretary of State for the Colonies [of May 23rd] and your telegram to Hongkong No. 115 [of June 27th].

Please make strong protest against this infringement of British

rights when you have received the necessary chart, stating that a claim for compensation will be presented in due course.

Addressed to Tokyo; repeated to Hongkong, Commander-in-Chief,

and Embassy Shanghai No. 569.