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and that he established an office in Canton for the purpose of

I am informed that it is the usual so distributing his paper. practice for local newspapers to sell their issues to a distri- butor and that it is entirely within this distributor's discre- tion as to how and in what places he disposes of the paper. This practice was followed during the occupation by the wah Kiu Yat Po so that it cannot be said that any organizat: on for distributing. the newspaper in Canton was the direct responsibility of the

The so-called distributor of the news- publisher, Shum Sai-yau.

paper in Canton was not a branch office of the Woh Kiu Yat Po but merely & news-stand at which the Wab Klu Yat Po was sold.

6.

In the third charge against Shum it is alleged that in 1943 he organized a Cultural Expedition to Japan. The charge is denied by Shum and his denial is supported by the declaration

I do not consider that made on oath of two reliable witnessen. this charge can be regarded as having been established, Boreover even if it could be proved to be true, it would not render Shum liable to be surrendered as a collaborator in view of the fact that Section 3 of the Ordinance requires that any act for which a collaborator may be surrendered must have been done in China,

7.

The fourth charge is that in 1945 Shum went to Canton to pay calls on the puppet authorities and that while he was in that city he re-organized and expanded pro-Japanese cultural propaganda there.

In answer to this charge shum denies that he went to Canton in 1945 and has adduced the evidence of reliable