Japan’s “Profound Regret”
(Received 10 a.m.) ' LONDON, February 27
The Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr R. A. Butler, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the Japanese Government had replied to the protest of the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, regarding the bombing, last Tuesday, of Hongkong territory.
It had expressed a profound regret that such an incident should have occurred, and it assured the Ambassador that, after a strict investigation, disciplinary action would be taken against those responsible, and appropriate measures devised to prevent a recurrence of incidents of this kind.
Japan had also indicated her intentioh to arrange for the payment of compensation for the damage done.
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Northern Advocate, 1 March 1939, Page 7
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