No:124
Copies to:-
D.O.T. O.T. No.41, Peking No:89. C.C.Shanghai No:55,
Mukden,
Harbin.
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British Consulate,
Dairen,
24th December, 1935.
Sir,
With reference to my despatch No:99 of
November 5th last, I have the honour to report that the
inaugural meeting of the promoters of the so-called
Hsingchung Kungssu was held at the South Manchuria
Railway offices here, after a brief postponement, on
the 20th instant. Neither Mr. Matsuoka, President
of the South Manchuria Railway Company, nor Mr. Shinji
Sogo, Chairman designate of the new company, attended,
both being still in Japan.
2.
According to the Japanese press the official
name of the company is the "(Kabushiki Kaisha) Kochu
Konsu", and its head office will after all be in Dairen,
with branches in Tokyo, Shanghai, Tientsin and Hongkong,
the inclusion of the last named place marking a still
further widening of its area of operations, which it
will be remembered was at first given as merely "North
China".
3. The capital is Yen 10,000,000 (quarter paid-up),
to be increased as occasion demands to four or five times
that amount, the whole being apparently subscribed by the
parent company.
4.
His Britannic Majesty's
Chargé d'Affaires
at Tokyo.