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Safe-hand to Hongkong thence by Imperial Airways
BY AIR MAIL
246
BRITISH EMBASSY,
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Shanghai, 16th March, 1939.
No. 238 (3/100F/1939)
Copies sent to:-
Tokyo No. 110
Governor Hongkong No. 12.
D.M. Chungking No. 44
(by safe hand)
My Lord,
3614
124 PR 1939.
List of Chinese Gov't offices.
I have the honour to transmit to Your
Lordship herewith a list, prepared by the Commercial
Secretary Hongkong, of Chinese Government official
and semi-official offices in Hongkong.
2.
Mr. Hutchison informs me that the Central
Bank of China does not appear in any Hongkong
directory.
It is ostensibly the Canton branch of the
Bank. It is in charge of Mr. P.N. Chang, who was
formerly who was formerly in the Ministry of Communi-
cations, was sent about 1930-1932 as Manager of the
Bank of Communications in Tientsin, was transferred
about 1933 to Hankow, was sent in 1937 before the
Japanese took Hankow to take charge of the Central
Bank in Canton, and got away from there with his
cash and securities in the Autumn of last year to
establish himself in the Colony. He has informed
Mr. Hutchison that from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and again
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. he deals with the business of
the Central Trust and the Purchasing Commissions in
his offices (four crowded rooms) in the Bank of
East Asia building: that from about 2.30 p.m. to
6 p.m. he deals with what he described as "matters
of international finance" in his office in the
/ Hongkong
The Right Honourable,
Viscount Halifax K.G., G.C.S.I.,
etc., etc., etc.,
FOREIGN OFFICE
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