CO129-570-14 Sino-Japanese War- attack on fishing junk by Japanese sailors 18-5-1938 - 22-12-1938 — Page 33

No. 95(305/70/38).

Copy to Foreign Office,

Gang Kong

British Embassy,

Tokyo.

8th July, 1938.

Your Excellency,

I communicated informally to His Excellency the

Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 17th June copies

of statements and medical reports which had been laid

before the Governor of Hong Kong in connexion with alleged

piracy and murder on a Hong Kong fishing junk by Japanese

sailors in the vicinity of the Ledrones Islands at no

great distance from Hong Kong territorial waters at about

10.0 a.m. on the rd Key, 1938.

The

2. The fmk in question was a Hong Kong registered

fishing Junk No. 291 H.., details of which were incl:ided

in the documents which I left with 'r. Horinouchi.

allegations in these documents may be summarised as follows:

on the morning of the 3rd Way last this junk, carrying 40

persons (the majority of who were Hong Kong born Chinese),

including women and children, was stated to have been

boarded by armed Japanese in motor-boats which had been

lowered from a Japanese warship: the hands of the people

on board the Junk were stated to have been tied behind their

bnaka: most of the men, women and children were killed and

other women 111-treated; and the junk then set on fire and

abandoned.

3. Although the details of the case have not been

His *xcellency

General Kazushige Ugaki,

H. T... Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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