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TRANSLATION OF INTELLIGENCE EXTRACTS No.189. 6/9/39.
(1) It was reported that Britain will make a loan of
£10,000,000 to Japan. At the same time, a British reporter
in Hong Kong has obtained secret information that the
British have complied with the request made by Japan to hand
over to the Japanese the whole of the silver deposited by
China in the British and French Concessions in Tientsin.
Britain has accepted all other conditions made by Japan.
They will be put into force separately.
We should pay
much attention to this and try to stop it.
(2) According to a Japanese spy stationed in Hong Kong
the Japanese at one time lodged the following three demands
to Britain:-
(1) To withdraw the Chinese Central Government's
organisations in Hong Kong.
(2) To impose a ban on the anti-Japanese presses and
oust the working members of the Central Govt.
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(3) To allow WANG's clique to carry out open
activities in Hong Kong.
It is also said that these demands were accepted by
the Hong Kong Government under condition that the Japanese
troops stationed near British borders be evacuated. But
it is learnt from another source that such demands have
been rejected by the Hong Kong Government. Enquiries are
being made.
It is learnt from TO, the Chinese traitor, that the
SHUM-CHUN problem between Britain and Japan has reached a
compromise. One of the conditions in the demands made by
the Japanese provided the return to Canton of the Chinese
in Hong Kong.
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