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CJaim That Visibility Was Poor LONDON, Dec. 28. The Tokio correspondent of The Times says that it is believed that the reply will point out that the airmen who bombed H.M.S. Scarab and H.M.S. Cricket were experiencing only their fourth day of active service. The same correspondent says that the Japanese reply tp the British Note will claim that when the Japanese battery fired on H.M.S. Ladybira visibility was of the poorest, The Japanese troops had moved up rapidly from Shanghai, and, according to the Japanese case, knew nothing of the river or its ship-r ping. The Japanese unit commanders assumed that all foreign ships had left the battle ?ope, It will he suggested that the attacks on the British ships were errors committed in the heat of battle. It will be frankly admitted that mistakes were made.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 7
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