CO537-1658 — Page 12

(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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