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CONFIDENTIAL

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Enclosure No. 1.

248

A meeting was held in the Council Chamber on

2nd March, 1939, at 3 p.m. to discuss the claim

for compensation for losses sustained in the

Lo Wu incident of 21st February, 1959.

Present:

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary

(Chairman)

Major General Tanaka and his A.D.C.

The Honourable the Commissioner of Police.

Colonel Neville, G.8.0. I, China Command.

The Manager of the Railway.

Captain Boxer, G.8.0. III, China Command.

The Consul for Japan, Hong Kong.

The Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary.

2. The Colonial Secretary welcomed the Japanese

representatives.

5.

Colonel Neville stated the correct facts,

as derived from competent accounts of military eye-

witnesses, for the information of Major-General Tanaka

and to correct versions of the facts which had come

from Japanese sources. Colonel Neville especially

emphasized that the bombing of the Chinese Maritime

Customs Station could not be done without violation

of British Territory

Major-General Tanaka produced a sketch

map which he said has been drawn up by the attacking

unit to explain their operations, He explained that

the officer commanding the attacking aeroplanes had

received special instructions not to violate British

Territory, that their maps were not as good as ours,

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