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quietisuse the

CHINESE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

MILITARY COUNCIL

GENERALISSIMO'S CANTON HEADQUARTERS.

No.9002

To:

His Excellency, the Governor

From:

Sir Mark Young

British Colony of Hong Kong HONG KONG

General Chang Fa-Kuei.

August 20th, 1946.

(1)

When Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation, traitor Shum Wai-Yau

was the Publisher of the puppet Vernacular Wah Kiu Daily. In this capacity

he acted in the interests of the enemy and denounced China and her allies.

(2) Although the vernacular Wah Kiu Daily was published in Hong Kong,

yet this Daily was distributed in large scale over a great part of Chinese

occupied (by the Japanese) territories, thereby instilling a lot of pro-

Japanese propaganda into the minds of the people. Besides, he established

an Office here in Canton to collect and distribute propaganda for his Daily.

For this crime, he has placed himself directly within the jurisdiction of

Chinese law.

(3)

In 1943, traitor Shum organized a Cultural Expedition of Japan.

On his return, he wrote all of his impressions in Japan were exceedingly

favourable.

(4)

In 1945, he came to Canton to pay personal calls on puppet Shu Mun-

Yee, the enemy and puppet liaison officers, and the figure-heads of the

Japanese military forces. While in Canton, he personally re-organized and

expanded the pro-Japanese cultural propaganda in Canton under the direction

of the puppet Wah Kui Daily.

(5)

Because all his crimes are hard and fast facts, he had violated

the 13th Clause of the First Section of the Second Provision of the Act for

Punishing Chinese Traitors. In the June of this year this Headquarters had

already issued Order No. Legal/1510 for his arrest, but he has as yet to be

apprehended.

(6) We have definite information that Traitor Shum Wai-Yau is now in

hiding in Hong Kong. I am now enclosing herewith an Investigation Form of

Acts of Chinese Traitors of the Prosecutor of the Kwangtung High Court of

Justice concerning this traitor Shum Wai Yau, evidences, and a snap-shot of

the traitor.