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Extract from South China Morning Post 18th March 1936.
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JAPAN IN MAÇAO.
PENETRATION BEING WATCHER.
LOAN FOR ABRODROME.
Persistent reports from Chinese sources in Macao
allege that Japanese interests are perseveringly obtaining an economic footing in the Portuguese Colony.
Some months ago it was reported that a Japanese group had been granted a monoply of the alcohol trade in
This was officially denied. It is now alleged that Macao.
the monoply exists, but in camouflaged form.
Latest report is that Japanese financiers are
offering a loan to certain public utility companies which
are in need of money for development.
confirmation.
There is no official
Gossip is that the Japanese group as a quid
pro quo wants permission to make an aerodroɛe in Macao,
presumably on the reclamation.