CO129-562-23 Koshu Koshi Kabushiki Kaisha- suspected activity as Japanese agents 2-4-1937 - 25-8-1937 — Page 17

No:124

Copies to:-

D.O.T. O.T. No.41, Peking No:89. C.C.Shanghai No:55,

Mukden,

Harbin.

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British Consulate,

Dairen,

24th December, 1935.

Sir,

With reference to my despatch No:99 of

November 5th last, I have the honour to report that the

inaugural meeting of the promoters of the so-called

Hsingchung Kungssu was held at the South Manchuria

Railway offices here, after a brief postponement, on

the 20th instant. Neither Mr. Matsuoka, President

of the South Manchuria Railway Company, nor Mr. Shinji

Sogo, Chairman designate of the new company, attended,

both being still in Japan.

2.

According to the Japanese press the official

name of the company is the "(Kabushiki Kaisha) Kochu

Konsu", and its head office will after all be in Dairen,

with branches in Tokyo, Shanghai, Tientsin and Hongkong,

the inclusion of the last named place marking a still

further widening of its area of operations, which it

will be remembered was at first given as merely "North

China".

3. The capital is Yen 10,000,000 (quarter paid-up),

to be increased as occasion demands to four or five times

that amount, the whole being apparently subscribed by the

parent company.

4.

His Britannic Majesty's

Chargé d'Affaires

at Tokyo.