CO129-579-5 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese aircraft- Hong Kong air space and other activities 31-1-1939 - 5-8-1939 — Page 2

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This correspondence and telegrams are, of

course, not registered chronologically since they

unfortunately do not arrive in that order. As they

are registered at present they are rather confusing,

but I have attempted to give a fairly coherent

account of their contents.

The telegram from the Consul General at

Canton to the Governor reports that the Japanese

Consul General notified the Consular body in Canton

that the Japanese authorities intend to shoot down

any aeroplane which flies over China at night unless

the flights and full details of time and course of

these planes are previously notified. In any case

these notified flights should not exceed the height

of 500 metres.

At the same time Mr. Blunt acknowledged

Mr. Okazaki's note and reminded him of H.M.G.'s

attitude to this question as defined in previous

notes delivered by Sir Robert Craigie to the

Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Tokio. The tenor of

these