London, Sept. 22.
The Government has received the communication with satisfaction and regards the incident as closed, declares a reply sent by the British gvernmant: tordas 4 British circles regard the tone of Japan's reply as satisfactory and as great deal of trouble to enquire into all the facts, and it is at which Sir Hughe was of the British ernment in its original was obtain assurances that everything possible would be done to non-combatants during hostilities in China, and the statement that the Japanese Government has repeated its instructions to the Japanese in China in this connection is 8 gu teed petition of such an incident.
The apology which the Government asked has 1 given, and the Note explains airmen responsible cannot be ed. It is felt, in any event, that regrettable occurrence will ha: effect of ensuring greater core combatants in the Sino-Japanese hostilities in future.
Texts of Notes Exchanged The texts of the Note from the Japanese Government and of the peh reply were published as follows:
The Japanese Note admits that on bombed two motor cars, which, it is stated, they believed to be military busses or trucks officers or soldiers of the Chinese Army, at a certain point south-east of Kat between Shanghai and Nanking.
This point differs from the one at which the attack on the British party took place according to the evidence of those accompanying the Ambassador, but the Note goes on to point out the discrepancy in the various reports as to the position of the incident and says: "In the light of all these circumstances the Japanese Government consider the incident may have been caused by Japanese "planes which mistook the Ambassador's motorcar for a military bus or truck, "As the wounding of the Ambassador," the Note continues, "may
however involuntary, thus have been due Government The Evening Star," alluding to the recent appeals for peace made by Mr. Cordell Hull the United States Secretary of State, and Mr. Anthony: Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, says: pious words by responsible, right-minded statesmen could avail, mankind long since would have been headed for a millenial of peace. Unfortunately, as events in Spain and China are proving, gestures are no match for guns."—Reuter. third country.
Clu 3 Tu non-combatants from existence of hóstilities in China."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.