CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905 — Page 174

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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VISCOUNT KANO, ex-manager

of the London branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank, was at his desk in Prince's Gate today.

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be The Viscount cannot turbed," I was told by his Japanese woman secretary.

In another part of the building the_Japanese Embassy staff remain under the same police guard, which has watched over them since the Japanese declared war. No addi- tional restrictions have been placed on them, following Mr. Eden's dis- closure of the Hong Kong atrocities.

But Viscount Kato and his wife are free to move about as they please.

Visit To Bond-street

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HE VISCOUNTESS, today, in fact, went to a beauty salon in Bond-street to have her hair done and her face massaged.

She came without an escort,”

Asked to leave.

the manageress told me. "Appar- ently she is free to go about without any re striction. I knew that none of my assistants would attend to her. Nor did I want her in the salon.

"How could I place her beside an English- woman whose husband may be serving abroad?

"So I took her into my office and told her politely that I would prefer she left. She seemed surprised. I pointed out that she was receiv- ing very different treatment from what I should get if I were in Hong Kong.

"She said: 'But that's all propa- ganda about the atrocities.'

I re- peated that I would prefer not to have her in the salon, and she left."

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The Lone Shopper ATER I SAW a little smiling Japanese man-servant slip with his shopping basket out of a building in Portman-square today, where other members of the Japanese Diplomatic Staff live.

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No one turned his head to watch him. The man-servant obtained permission from the single police- man on guard and hurried down Portman-street on a shopping pedition. He was followed at about. Èn vards by a constable.

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