In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. F 11991/2655/10
and address-
not to any person by name
but to-
"The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
Sir,
/
DUPL.
FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.W.1.
20
13th December, 1939.
With reference to Colonial Office letter
To.53838/52/39 of the 17th November, enclosing a copy of a
despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of an
approach made to the Acting Colonial Secretary by the Japanese
Consul-General, I am directed by Viscount "alifax to state that
he concurs in the policy towards political organisations in the
Colony set out in paragraph 6 of His Excellency's despatch.
2. While Lord Halifax shares the Governor's view that
it is undesirable that Hong Kong should be made a centre of
Chinese, or Japanese, political intrigue, he suggests that
it should be remembered that General Wu Ze-chen, referred to
in the Governor's despatch, exercises considerable influence in
Chinese governing circles, and adopted a consistently friendly
and helpful attitude towards the British authorities when he
was Mayor of Shanghai.
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
R.Ekow
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