CO129-582-6 Salvage operations on the wreck of the Japanese S.S. JIN KAI MARU 22-5-1939 - 27-10-1939 — Page 23

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Mr. A. J. Dawe.

Sir H. Moore.

Sir G. Tomlinson.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

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Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

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HONG KONG.

CONFIDENTIAL.

GOVERNOR.

FURTHER ACTION.

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Sir,

I have etc. to refer to your

Confidential (2) despatch of the 22nd

of May, 1939, on the subject of the

salvaging of the Japanese S.S. "Jin

Kai Maru", and to confirm my telegram

No.135 of the 13th of July which read

as follows:

"With reference to your despatch Confidential (2) of May 22nd. Salvage operations on S.S. "Jin Kai Maru". I agree to refusal of application of Japanese Company. In order to avoid any dispute on the point of most- favoured-nation treatment, I

suggest that prohibition on salvaging the vessel in question

should extend to all foreign Companies and that only a British

Company should be allowed to undertake the work. Despatch follows by mail."

2. With regard to paragraph 4

Chan adorned that

of your despatch under reference the

the

legal position under the Anglo-

<world affear to he Japanese Commercial Treaty of 19114s-

that, in as much as the carrying out of

salvaging operations is the exercise of

an