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His Majesty's rincipal Secretary of „tate for Foreign ffairs presents his compliments to His Excellency the Soviet Ambassador and with reference to the latter's note No. 41 of the 16t Burch, 1948, concerning the Loviet stowships -inferopol" and "Svirstroi" has the honour to communicate the following.
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The British ar Risks Insuranco ffice regrets that they are unable to share Monsieur Garoubin's opinion that the proofs of soinure hitherto furnished by the oviet aut orities are sufficient to enable then to pay the corpensation re uosted. are o liged therefore, as was stated in a letter to the brokers in .eptember of last year, to re uost the Soviet authori:les to produce documenta esta lishing the nature of the representations made to the Japanese authorities and the terms of the Japanese reply. In the event of the oviet authorities
oing unable to produce such documents, the Bar Lisks Insurance Office would be interested to learn on what datos reproson utions were gade to the
Jaanese Governint regarding the seizure of vene ships and the nature of the latter's reply.
FOREIGN O. FICS,
24th August, 1948
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