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...Polite Mayor Yui said that he would forward the note to Nanking. Admiral Hasegawa said nothing. Few days later the Tokyo Government sent to London a belated reply to their note demanding fullest apology for the shooting two weeks ago of British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson (TIME, Sept. 6). Reports from London indicated that the reply was not worth waiting for: it contained no formal apology, was patently a Japanese attempt to gain time. The British Cabinet was thought likely to send another ''stiff note...
...zoomed down to within 20 yards of the first car, riddled it with machine-gun fire. The driver. Colonel W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai to present one of those peace-plans that the British Government is tireless in proposing...
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