QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE ACTIVITIES
THIRD QUARTER
1939
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1.
During the quarter under review there was a distinct
lull in Japanese activities in the colony.
2.
TAJIRI, who has acted as Consul-General since Decem-
ber,1938 is leaving for Shanghai shortly to take up his
position as 1st Secretary to the Japanese Embassy there. He
is to be replaced in Hong Kong by Katsuo OKAZAKI, who has
been acting as Consul-General in Canton since the occupation
of that city by the Japanese in November, 1938. OKAZAKI
has seen Consular service in Britain, Washington, Shanghai
and Amoy.
(ii) ODA, the local Consul, paid a hurried visit to
Macau on 11/12.9.39 and left the following day for Japan.
(iii) A new addition to the local Consulate staff is
Naokiti KITAZAWA, who describes himself as 2nd Secretary to
the Japanese Embassy in Shanghai and states he has come here
to assist the local Consul-General. He lives in one of the
local hotels and appears to carry on his activities from
there without going near the Consulate and instead receives
Consular officials daily in his room.
2. The Japanese sponsored English newspaper which was
reported on last quarter made its first appearance on 16.7.
39 under the title "Hong Kong News". At present it is
being published once a week but it is the proprietor's
intention to make it a daily publication in the near future.
Three Europeans are employed on the staff and the paper does
not as yet carry any advertising matter. The earlier edit-
ions, in addition to adopting an anti-Chiang Kai shek
attitude, seemed to make a point of giving undue publicity
to court cases in which British soldiers had appeared and
other matters which could be described as being derogatory
to the British Army. Since the signing of the German-Soviet
Pact, however,the paper has been more moderate in its English
sentiments although still carrying on a pro-Japanese and
anti-Chiang Kai Shek/
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