CO129-579-10 Sino-Japanese War- quarterly reports of Japanese activities 25-1-1939 - 1-2-1940 — Page 4

4

(4) on

53853/89

9. You

Leanet

( the summary for first quarter,

1939.

21.4.39.

It is perhaps significant that the sapanese

are she

increasing

showring

an in

intust in Macao.

We have heard puronaly - from inited States

souras

be planning

that the Japanese

ar

reported to

a scheme to develop raças as a

commercial port at the expense of Hory. Hoy

thus restoring

Macas to its Sld position

commrial centre.

as a

Coreover the appears to

foundation for the reports

be at last souve

that the Portuguese

are

contemplating

Capt. Torgulho,

closer cooperation with Japan.

a

police officer in Macao, appears to have visited

Tobeys recently, in company with a Tolayo

spurious

dentist named Wada. Wada is reported

ly

как

"Asahi" to be a

Japanese adviser

But the rumous

to the fout. If Macao"

vgarding the undistanding in principle which

it his said has been reached between the

K. Gari's

two sorts, & which le dio

& which the reported in Sri K..

desp. below (14) m 53833/39,

exagerated.

M. hee to see

ar

подову

? Distribute (19) as bis 4-8.

A. N. Saloworthy

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