CO129-579-3 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 30-10-1938 - 23-12-1939 — Page 16

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62. 70

7.10966/14/10

4.12.39.

.S.S. HAITAN.

R4/ 36 -89. oh see of consequent impossibility of establishing

39 -

that the mine was

Japanese,

has reached the conchision

that no clain cas

Gort. Regress

16

properly

se presented to

concurrence before informing Sick. brangie.

Jop. Gost:

This file had been in cirzin, unitil today,

<I had not myself.

seen (62) until yesterday.

Then M Mayall, F.O., rang me up rasked

x

as Seurng

bo lie?

Singgested by M

Alabaster's retiart last encl. but one

bo (35).

if they could have

ealy reply.

(G),

I think we

cam

? In view of

only concu

daim

in the abandonment of the

I had not heard before of

The

Chinese having laid mines any, where

known not to have done rif they

They were

So

Thind the presumptive liability would repose with the Japonesa. But l'imagine that does not constitute a very good

case by itself,

is lacking.

F

I am sorry

action required on

circumstantial evidence

I overlooked the furthe

(G), but it will be seen

from Mr Galeworthing's min. That the F.0.

had been made aware of

? We should send

its contents

coper of

it with

reply to the P.O., regretting that it

had not been sent before saying hat in view of this additional information

we concus

? Also tel. to Gor. in reply to (G),

Saying we

we

have done so.

Nis Andrew's

20.xi.27

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