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H.K. I. R. No.1/38.
HONG KONG.
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SHATAUKOK FRONTIER INCIDENT.
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SECRET.
As noted in previous numbers of this summary, the
Japanese Press has been making a special feature of articles
purporting to reveal the vast quantities of munitions being
exported from Hong Kong to Canton by rail, road and sea. With
the object of proving to the local Japanese Consulate that
these reports were mostly quite untrue, G.S.0.III(I), accom-
panied by another British Officer, took out the resident
Japanese language officer, Major T. Suzuki, and a number of the
Consulate on December 19th to SHATAUKOK, where it was alleged
a new motor road was being used for munition lorries going
from Kowloon to Canton.
On
Unfortunately 0.8.0. III had neglected to ascertain
the exact position of the Anglo-Chinese boundry, and was under
the mistaken impression that the whole village was British
territory, whereas in point of fact half of it is Chinese.
arriving at the village, the party walked through it to the
river on the far side, where two group photos were taken on the
small stone foot-bridge which forms the only means of crossing
the river, there being of course no road of any kind in exie-
tence on the Chinese side of the frontier. This bridge is
actually within Chinese territory, but the party were not
interfered with or molested in any way there. On returning
back through the village along the main street which forms the
actual frontier-line (apparently inclusive to Britain) some one
in the crowd spotted that two of the party were Japanese and at
once raised a hue and cry. It being a market day, the village
was unusually crowded, and the whole party was immediately
mobbed by the rabble armed with bamboo poles and stones, but no
knives or lethal weapons were used. After some minutes they
managed to reach their car without having suffered anything
worse than superficial cuts and bruises, with the exception of
Major Suzuki, whose shoulder was dislocated in the fracas, and
whose..