CO129-570-14 Sino-Japanese War- attack on fishing junk by Japanese sailors 18-5-1938 - 22-12-1938 — Page 14

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No.172(155/TOJ/58)

British Embassy,

Tokyo.

Slat cetober 1938.

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Your Excellency,

In my Note No. 96 of the 8th July I had the

honour to furnish to His Excellency General Ugaki certain details in connexion with alleged piracy and murder on a

Hong Kong fishing junk by Japanese ssilore in the vicinity

of the Ladrones Islands on the 3rd May 1938, and I further informed His Excellency that I would in due course present

claim in respe t of the damages to Eritish lives anî

property resulting from that attack.

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I have now the honour to present to Your

Excellency a statement of this claim, which amounts in

all to Hong Kong # 11,872,50, and I shall be grateful if

the Japanese Government will be so good aa to give the

claim their early and favourable consideration.

I avail ayself of this concrtunity to renew to

Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.

His Excellency

Kr. Nachiro Ārita,

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

(egu) F. L. CRAIGIE.