With regard to the accidental bombing of British territory just within the boundary line of the Kowloon concession, near Shumchun station at 10 o'clock yesterday morning by Japanese army planes, Major Akiyama said the War Office regrets this mistake, and already has informed the authorities at Hongkong, through the Japanese consul-general there.
He said efter occupation of Canton, the Japanese army had abandoned this section, as of no particular use to them because the Pearl River is being used for communications. However, Chinese guerillas had begun to collect there, taking advantage of its close proximity to the British boundary line. The Japanese army hed, therefore, decided it was time to bomb them out, and it wes the course of this action that one bomb accidentally fell on British soil, hitting a'failway locomotive and causing some injuries. For this, he expects, he said, that compensation will be mede in due course.
A British Embassy spokesman told your correspondent today that quite serious view is taken of the matter, and a formal protest, addressed to the Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, had deen presented by the embassy counsellor, Mr. J. L. Dodds, yesterday. No reply has been received yet, he added.
Commenting on the Chinese killings in the Shanghai Settlement, the Foreign Office deputy spokesman, Mr. Ken Harada (who has recently rejoined the Foreign Office after spending 19 years in Geneva) emphasized this morning that though there have been seventeen cases of assault, "the Municipal Police have not made a single arrest yet, in spite of our demands."
Everything proves, he said, that there is no result from the Japanese repeated protests, and it shows that the Municipal Council is incapable of doing anything, though they may be trying. Consequently the Japanese government is now considering what appropriate means must be adopted to deal with the situation.
Lo Jour" thunders "if we were menaced by force, if one of our te: ritories were invaded, or if anybody: tries to face us with a fait accompli, France and Britain, acting together, will immediately enter into war with success in ways which have been already examined and which are extensible, and with the economic, financial and other resources of the United States."—Reute:
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