8
37
Je
3PN.
1.2.40.
The Summary for fourth quite 1939.
nottung
much beyond evidence of
Jap attempts to collar trade.
7. distituti
as usual L.F. Firef
26-32 Conf. may reenhill
Refle
Ramorne +1/2
A229/2
2/7/40
23/2
to en after action
ache
24 am
34 35
no
Wo.
AM کم باشد
އ
(spend
433)
26.2.4
M.9.5.
✓
Page
Page
NO.1/1710/37s.
EB.
NUMBER AND DATE SHOULD BE QUOTED IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER
SECRET.
Copied to B.E. Tokyo, No.12.
B.E. Shanghai, No.19.
H.B.M. Consul-Genera;
Canton No.12.
RE
53858/59331
9
age 9
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
1st February, 1940.
14 FEB 1940
0.0. REGI
The Governor, Hong Kong, presents his
compliments to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, London, and in continuation of the
(27) former's secret note of 24th January, 1940,
has the honour to forward six copies of a Report
of Japanese Activities for the fourth quarter of
1939.
0.
The Right Honourable
The Secretary of State for the Colonies,
LONDON.
age 9
Page
Page
SECRET
10
HONG KONG,
17th January, 1940.
QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE ACTIVITIES
Fourth Quarter, 1939.
The quarter commenced with a distinct lull
in Japanese activities both here and in Canton the
business of which latter part seems no to be closely
connected with Hong Kong. As the quarter went on
there were signs of the Japanese Government's impatience
at the rate of progress of the Japanese military "clean
up" and the diplomats' efforts for the "new order in
East Asia" as regards South China, and there was then
a sudden renewed activity of Japanese officials and
the Japanese Consul General at Canton, an experienced
diplomat with service in China, U.S.A. and En ̧land,
transferred to Hong Kong. In October he attended a
Japanese consular conference in Shanghai and on his
return the Hong Kong Consulate had removed to its new
offices on the water front, to premises purchased by
Japanese newspaper interests. Officials of the Japanese
Embassy at Shanghai and a Japanese puppet link as well
as an official of the new China Affairs Board (the
Japanese official organisation charged with the duty
of establishing the "new order", who aim at "forming
a paradise of mutual prosperity for the Asiatic peoples,
free from foreign avarice but with no intention of
rejecting legitimate activities of well-meaning Third
Powers.") conferred with the Consul-General before his
departure to the Consular Conference in Shanghai and on
his return to the Colony he held a reception for Hong
Kong British officials and merchants.
November then opened with a rush of Japanese
officials all bound for Hong Kong and Canton on duty and
ge 10
ge 10Page 11
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.