JAPANESE REPLY TO BRITISH PROTEST
EXCUSES FOR ATTACKS ON SHIPPING (Received December 29, 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, December 28. The Tokyo correspondent of The Times says that the Japanese reply to the British Note will claim that when the Japanese battery fired ,on H.M.S. Ladybird, visibility was at its poorest; . Japanese troops had moved up rapidly from Shanghai and, according to the Japanese case, knew nothing of the river or its shipping, and the Japanese unit commanders assumed that all foreign ships had left the battle zone. It will be suggested that the circumstances prove that the attacks on British ships were errors committed in the heat of battle, and it will be frankly admitted that mistakes were made.
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Southland Times, Issue 23394, 29 December 1937, Page 7
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