CO129-570-14 Sino-Japanese War- attack on fishing junk by Japanese sailors 18-5-1938 - 22-12-1938 — Page 35

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No.

F 6826/6826/10.

and address-

not to any person by name

but to--

'The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Вире

sir,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

6th July, 1938.

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2

With reference to Colonial Office letter

No. 53838/10/G/38 of the 24th June, enclosing a despatch

from the Governor of Hong Kong giving particulars of an

attack on a Hong Kong fishing junk by Japanese sailors in Chinese waters on the 3rd May last, I am directed by

Viscount Halifax to inform you that he concurs in the suggestion that His Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo should make a strong protest to the Japanese Government against this attack and should ask that a thorough investigation

He has accordingly be made by the Japanese authorities. despatched a telegram instructing Sir Robert Craigie to take action in this sense, a copy of which is enclosed

herein.

2. Lord Halifax also agrees that the Governor of Hong Kong should be asked to prepare a claim and to forward it to Sir Robert Craigie for presentation to the

Japanese Government.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Celonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

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