CO129-579-11-1 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940 — Page 95

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Sir,

'ED

24 OCT 1939

C. O. REGX

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

13th October, 1939.

I have the honour to refer to my telegrams as noted

307 of 26th in the margin and to forward for your information the following September,

1939.

No.332 of 4th

account of further developments in the matter of the seizure

October, 1939.on 2 5th September, 1939, in this Colony of an illicit wireless

transmitting and receiving set operated by agents of the

Chinese Government.

Enclosure No.1.

2.

Among the documents found on the raided premises

were copies of secret correspondence belonging to the British

Ambassador in China and files of correspondence between David

Kung alias Kung Ling Hon, son of Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance in the Government of China, and a person in Shanghai,

which deal with the formation of assassination squads in

Shanghai and particularly with the attempted assassination of

Siu Sik Kwan, head of the "puppet" Consolidated Tax Bureau in

Shanghai. I enclose a copy of a police précis of certain papers which bear on this subject: I invite your attention particularly to the two paragraphs on page 2 which I have

underlined. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr has been furnished

with a copy of this précis. They also included files of

what appears to be a Hong Kong Branch of the Chinese

Government's political and economic intelligence service and

many documents dealing with contracts for the purchase and

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c.,

&C.,

&c.