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Enclosure No.3.
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ACTIVITIES OF GENERAL WU TE-CHEN IN HONG KONG.
Early in 1939 the Central Standing Committee of
the Kuomintang decided at its 117th Meeting that party and
national affairs in Hong Kong needed co-ordination and
strengthening. There had been a certain amount of activity
there ever since the outbreak of war but it had been
sporadic and disconnected, and as far as is known was
limited mostly to legitimate objects, newspaper and other
written propaganda and the collection of funds for war relief and the sale of war bonds. An attempt at the end
of 1937 to organize a central labour union with a view to anti-Japanese work was suppressed by the authorities
and efforts to bring about an organized boycott were
successfully discouraged.
The main objects of the 1939 resolution are
stated to have been:
2.
(1) To increase Kuomintang membership.
(2) Publication of newspapers and other
propaganda.
(3) Subsidizing of schools.
(4) Collection of war funds.
(5) Development of an intelligence and counter
espionage system.
In pursuance of this resolution General Wu Te-chen
arrived in Hong Kong on April 17th, 1939, and opened an
office in Shell House. His staff consists of about ten
persons. He is also chief director of the South West
Printing and Publishing Co. of 6, Des Voeux Road, Central,
which produces two (2) vernacular papers and a quantity of
pamphlets.
3.
On August 22nd, 1939, a man named Sham Sung
a nephew of Wang Ching Wei who was said to be
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