CO129-579-10 Sino-Japanese War- quarterly reports of Japanese activities 25-1-1939 - 1-2-1940 — Page 35

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reaching Canton./

(iv) Another official attached to the Foreign Affairs

Department, Tokyo, arrived from Macau in company with a Brazilian

Army Major, and left together for Japan by the first available ship.

They both conversed in Portuguese.

(v)

Colonel ISHINO, the local suspect language study officer,

has been making frequent trips to Macau recently, and it is

reported that on at least one occasion he met other Japanese

Military officers who had journeyed from Canton for the purpose

of holding a meeting.

5.

Major-General TANAKA, Chief of Staff of the South China

Expeditionary Force, paid an official visit to Hong Kong,

accompanied by two other Military officers (one of whom was formerly

stationed in Hong Kong as a language study officer) in connection

with the Japanese bombing of British territory. After a short

stay they left for Macau where they paid their respects to the

Governor, who, incidentally left for Portugal by air on 4.4.39.

6.

One local Japanese resident died as a result of wounds

inflicted by an embittered Chinese, who has since been committed

for trial. "part from this, no marked anti-Japanese incidents

have come to notice during the quarter.

C.R.R.

12.4.39.