CO129-580-3 Sino-Japanese War- anti-Japanese activities in Hong Kong 23-8-1939 - 30-12-1939 — Page 20

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. F 11991/2655/10

and address-

not to any person by name

but to-

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Sir,

/

DUPL.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

20

13th December, 1939.

With reference to Colonial Office letter

To.53838/52/39 of the 17th November, enclosing a copy of a

despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of an

approach made to the Acting Colonial Secretary by the Japanese

Consul-General, I am directed by Viscount "alifax to state that

he concurs in the policy towards political organisations in the

Colony set out in paragraph 6 of His Excellency's despatch.

2. While Lord Halifax shares the Governor's view that

it is undesirable that Hong Kong should be made a centre of

Chinese, or Japanese, political intrigue, he suggests that

it should be remembered that General Wu Ze-chen, referred to

in the Governor's despatch, exercises considerable influence in

Chinese governing circles, and adopted a consistently friendly

and helpful attitude towards the British authorities when he

was Mayor of Shanghai.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

R.Ekow

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