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EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM SIR GEOFFRY NORTHCOTE (HONG KONG)
TO MR. GENT, COLONIAL OFFICE, DATED
14th OCTOBER, 1939.
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SECRET.
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The affair of the Central Trust Offices (see
Secretary of State's secret telegram No. 250 to me) is
worrying me a bit. The facts are that on information
received' Police and Post Office Officials raided three
offices in Kowloon where they found not only a W/T
installation being operated but also a large number of
cyphers and codes. So much for what has been made public
in the Magistrate's Court. The Chinese Government are
trying alternatively to make light of the affair, or to
bluff us out of the occupied premises: I am also receiving
a good many requests and suggestions that the arrested
men should not be punished with imprisonment.
So far as the unpublished side of the affair
goes, I think that the flurry which they are in is due to
fear that we may discover still more 'dirty work' on the
part of David Kung and the Central Trust. We have
already found a considerable number of copies of secret
documents, obviously procured from within the British
Embassy at Shanghai, and we have the clearest proof that
David Kung was directing an assassination organization
from here. The following quotation from a precis made
by the police of certain of the documents found in David
Kung's inner office is particularly enlightening.
"The object of the squad (in Shanghai) is to
assassinate Japanese Army officials, damage their
espionage system, and assassinate Chinese traitors.
The French concession to be the base of
operations
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