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UHINA COM AND INTELLIGEMOK DIARY.
October 1915
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1st Instalment,
453
1. A cable from H.B.M'■ Consul General, Shanghai, dated 20th September 1915, informed us as follows:-
"Gupta passenger on board "Yasaka Haru" due Hong "Kong September 21st or September 22nd coming from "San Francisco vis Japan Peking may be in connection "with sedition has not passport issued here full stop *Cooks gave him touring notes £150 paid for Shanghai "dollars although he went to them before having no "funde."
On arrival at Hong Kong Shiva Prasad Gupta val questioned by the Police and stated that he came from America to Japan in lay then in August via Seoul, Korea, to Peking and Shanghai, reporting himself to H.B.M's Vice Consul, Seoul. This latter statement we verified as correct by oable to Seoul. This indicated that Shiva Prasad Gupta was not the H.L. Gupta referred to in the Admiralty cable dated 14th September 1915, and he was allowed
to proceed on the "Yasaka Maru" to Singapore.
Our Intelligence Report from Shanghai states:-
*The movements of one Shiva Frasad Gupta, &
"Bengali, who came from America via Japan, to Peking and "Shanghai, where he stayed at a Chinese Hotel in Thibet Road, "have aroused suspicion.
"He had no money on arrival in Shanghai, but later "went to Cooks and bought £350 worth of their oḍroular notes "(verified in Hong Kong) and paid for them in Shanghai Dollar "Notes.
"A man travelling from America to Caloutta would "not run the risk of exchange transactions by buying dolları "and converting them into the next best for gold."
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