CO129-570-13 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on a fishing junk 23-5-1938 - 10-12-1938 — Page 76

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Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the secretary

of State for the Colonies.

Dated 23rd May, 1938, Received 6-35am 23rd May, 1938.

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No.133.

Addressed to the Secretary for the Colonies

No. 133 of the 23rd May repeated to Tokyo No. 53 Embassy Shanghai No.84 Commander in Chief No. 3. I am informed

that on the 17th May the Japanese armed motor trawlers

attacked smell fishing boat in British Territorial waters

2-2 latitude 21 degrees 21 minutes

58 seconds north

longitude 113 degrees 51 minutes 48 seconds east 1.e.

about one and a quarter miles south south west of Tongkwa

light. Three of the crew were taken ashore on island

Lintin Chinese territory, and blindfolded by four

Japanese sailors who then decapitated one and so injured

another that he died an hour later

Third was severely

cut about the neck but is still alive in Kowloon Hospital

in critical condition. Full statement will be sent at

beith earliest possible moment probably establishing British eight

of victims.