CO129-570-14 Sino-Japanese War- attack on fishing junk by Japanese sailors 18-5-1938 - 22-12-1938 — Page 34

sifted by a court of enquiry they are sufficiently

circumstantial and convincing to have produced a moat unfavourable impression on His Majesty's Government and

I now have the honour, under instructions from His

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Majesty's Principal ́ecret ry of tate for Foreign Affairs, to request that a thorough investigation may be made into the facts stated in the documents which I left with Mr.

Horinouchi, I shall in due course have the honour

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present to Your Excellency a claim in respect of the damages to British lives and property resulting from this attack.

I avail myself etc.,

(igned) R. I. Graigie.