(1) That the motives of Shaw and his
directors in obtaining permission from the Japanese to continue publication afts the face of Hagkaup
were
to preserve a rammable asset
(2) man they may have thought
mainly
1942
and 1948 That the Japanese womed
Win
but that it to most welchery
that they were
wvos pro Japanese,
(3) that the story told in the peation in
And
in the main corset
and that the myect
of this agitation into secure
prese property
A rakuable
(There has upp arculty
been no similor move to acquire
Island News
the
( Ништа то чаю Роз присово
propetor. Aw Brom Haw
was. Just is
quilting & pro Tapanese propaganda, but who has, I was told, put hurself right' wit
the Chaise Authiontes. He is a
A
milionaire)
4) That appeasement
world be politically
Kanewmo
ексюто
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16 Te 1315
40 10 46
Since dictating my minute of to-day's date above a further telegram has come from the Governor (16) in which he says that Shum may have left the Colony and that in any case no decision will be taken on his surrender until his petition has been considered here. As pointed out in paragraph 4 of my minute above we are hardly in a position to consider his petition without knowing the Governor's views of the Chinese case for his surrender. I think therefore that we must still
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