CO129-571-4 Sino-Japanese War- compensation for damage to British rolling stock on Canton-Kowloon Railway by Japanese air... 7-1-1938 - 9-12-1938 — Page 7

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operations and should therefore themselves bear the risk of injury.

Risks of injury to British travellers in area where hostilities

are in progress must be borne by travellers.

Risk of injury, to be borne by British subjects, to British

interests is greater in cases where they are not notified to the

Japanese authorities. Validity of transference of property from

Chinese to British ownership even when valid according to British

law is nevertheless to be determined "in special contemplation of"

laws of war.

Japanese Government maintain that in cases where Chinese

forces make use of, or approach near to, British property

responsibility for damage rests with Chinese side.