CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939 — Page 64

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be

returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]

(F.1779/1696/10.)

TO JAPAN.

Cypher telegram to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).

Foreign Office.

No. 95.

24th February, 1939.

4.50 p.m.

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IMPORTANT.

Your telegram No. 176 [of the 23rd February: Japanese

aerial attack on Hongkong leased territories].

I authorise you to accept settlement on the lines indicated,

but as a matter of practical convenience and in order to have

all the assurances in writing I suggest that Japanese reply should be consolidated in one document, covering (a) apologies

offered in paragraph 3 of Note given in your telegram No. 173

[of the 23rd February: F.1747/1696/10], (b) compensation

offered in same paragraph, (c) disciplinary measures referred

to in Vice-Minister's message given in your telegram under

reference, (d) assurances about non-repetition given verbally

to you by Minister for Foreign Affairs as reported in your

telegram No. 174 [of the 23rd February: F.748]. In this con-

nexion Japanese Government may be prepared to repeat promise

of forty-eight hours' notice of intended operations near

frontier. This is not essential, but it should be included

if possible.

To this Note you could reply that you are instructed by

His Majesty's Government to regard the incident as having been

settled on these terms.

repeated to Shanghai No. 151

Addressed to Tokyo No. 95; Hongkong unnumbered and Canton No. 7.