CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6] — Page 29

No 150.

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RECR

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R 26 MAY 13

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 2nd. May, 1913.

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Sir.

I have the honour to inform you that on the 13th. December last, Mr. Chan King Wa, Chief of Police, Canton, informed the Police here that he had received information from Tokio to the affect that a large quantity of forged notes of the Kwong Tung Military Government had been made in Tokio and were expected to arrive in Hongkong during the course of the next ten days and he invited the assistance of the Police in seizing the forged notes.

2.

Through a Chinese who was originally a party

to the forgery, Mr. Chan King Wa came in touch with the Japanese

forgers soon after their arrival in Hongkong on the 17th. of

December. He then arranged for a Canton Detective to purchase in

Hongkong a quantity of the forgeries from the Japanese and in-

-formed the Hongkong Police of his plans. The result was that on

the 21st. of December the Police arrested six Japanese and seized

a cabin trunk full of forged notes, the Japanese being on their way to carry out the bargain with the Canton detective. The names of

the six Japanese arrested were:-

Buichi Furukawa

Shikukichi Histotsuyanagi

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2.

3.

Kotaro Kodoishi

4.

Keiko Nagao

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6.

Kiyoto Nishiyama

Fukuzo Sano.

RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT,

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M.P.,

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