The Archive · 1937

British Note to be Rejected?

London, Aug, 31.

reported by the Tokyo correspondent of the "Evening Standard" that Japan intends rejecting the demands in the British Note over the wounding of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen.

Japan merely intends to offer a formal apology and will decline assurances that there will be no repetition of such incidents in the war zone. Japan will probably demand that in future Britain will inform the Japanese authorities about jour noys of British diplomats in the Chinese war zone—Trans-Ocean,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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