CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927 — Page 21

political views. At Hong Kong there is said to be a

"transport section".

3.

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One "Mochmad Gani" of Sourabaya figures on the list

as a member of the committee for financial affairs in Java.

This seems to be a British Indian name and the person con-

cerned may perhaps be connected with a well-known firm of

Indian suzar-brokers.

I am making enquiries on the point.

Most of the names on the list belong either to

Chinese or to natives of Dutch India, but there are also those

of a few Dutchmen (or Germans) and Russians.

5.

of one Ang Sioe Tjiang, the owner of an engineering

shop at Batavia, it is stated in the list that he will receive

machines from Shanghai for the manufacture of arms.

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6. In addition to the above-mentioned list of names, my

informant showed me a copy of a telegram deanatched by the

Dutch Consul-General at Hong Kong, on the 25th ultimo, to the

Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, of which I have

made the translation into English enclosed herewith (enclosure 21

According to this telegram, Ang Sice Tjiang, men-

tioned above, owns at Tasikmalaja (in the Preanger district of

Western Java) an ammunition factory w ich is canceled beneath

an installation erected for the manufacture of perfumes. The

telegram goes on to disclose the arrangements made for smuggling

into Java on a steamer, the name of which is not known to me,

a number of revolvers contained in cases hidden below gunny

bars. The telegram enda by stating that one Zosmita (properly

asmita), a native residing at Eandoeng (Java) who is now

reported to be at the head of the communist party in the

Netherlands Cast Indies, works in close co-operation with the

"Long Tong Kongsi", a Chinese firm with offices at Hong Kong,

Canton and Tegal (a port on the North coast of Java). The

director of this firm is stated to be a Chinese named Lim Su

(or Soe) Den. One Bian Ho, manager of the firm at Canton, is

alleged in the telegram to be on the point of visiting Tegal.

8.

Reference to the list of names shown to me by my

informant