CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940 — Page 22

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The translators attached to the Special

Branch cannot place any meaning in the characters Nam

Chim of Nam Chim Sh'e (Sh'e means society) but on one

of the society's chops (91) it is seen that there is in

English:- "Shanghai Office, 1936 the Nai Shze Club of

China" and one cannot help but think of Nazi when seeing

Nai-Shze. However, in the constitutions of the

Society 91 it says the object of this society shall

be co-operation, mutual aid and mutual guidance.

2

91 is a list of members and officials of

the Head Society dated 1938. It is seen that David

Kuhg is president. There are branches in Shanghai,

Hongkong, Kweiyang and Chungking.

To shew that persons connected with the

assassination squads concerned with the attempted

assassinations of "puppets" are also members of this

3

Nam Chim Sh'e, I attach at 91 the membership form

陵熊

of 1123 (WAN LING YUNG) dated 5th March 1936, when he

was 20 years of age.

龍文

4

91 is the membership form of

CHEUNG LUNG MAN to whom 4 ús addressed.

5

91 is a list of members of the Hongkong

branch of the society. There are 57 members

Their

寶言

H.K. addresses are given. The man CHA PO YIN (or IN)

mentioned in 3) as the man responsible for the coding

and decoding of secret messages referring to the

assassination business in (1) and 2) is a member of

the Hongkong branch. His Hongkong address is given as

No.3 Knutsford Terrace, Kimberley Road. Several other

members are down as libing at the same address.

It is therefore shevm that several persons

connected with the conducting of assassinations are at

the same time members of the Nam Chim Sh'e.

The military authorities are also interested

in several files containing secret documents found at

this address, and while I am aware that this case is of

such a nature that the Hongkong Government deem it

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