COPY
31st May, 1937.
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1.
JAPANES ASPIONAGE:
"CHINA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
LIMITED".
(A subsidiary organisation of the South Manchurian
Railway).
The Shameen firm called the HING CHUNG COMPANY
(covering the KOCHU KOSHI Company, the China Development
Company and
the Last Asia Economic Investigation Bureau of
Tokyo) is a bogus company doing no business and is the
headquarters for the control of the whole Japanese espionage
organisation in Hong Kong, South China, Hainan and Kalaya.
All the expenses and salaries are paid direct by the Japanese
War Ministry. The principal agents for the collection and
dissemination of information are:-
(a) Seljo Sawada and Mitsugu Shibata, who are both
attached to the Japanese Consulate-General at
Hong Kong as Chancellors.
(b) Toehio Shoji and Katsushiro Nagai, attached to the
Japanese Consulate-General at Hong Kong as so called
"marine inspectors".
(c) Kwarokuro Endo, Commercial Attaché to the Japanese
Consulate-General at Hong Kong.
(d) Chenosuke Tonegi, Chancellor to the Japanese Consulate
at Canton.
(e) giioni Yasumura
and his assistant Masani Yamashita,
officials of the Bouth Manchuria Railway, living at
Macdonnell Road, and
(f) Kitaro Chinara, clerk to the Japanese Coneul at Canton.
All these with the aid of Japanese and Chinese scouts
collect/