B.P. Dillon
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c/o British-American Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd.,
175 Soochow Road,
SHANGHAI.
8th April 1943.
To
The Swiss Consul General in Charge of British Interests,
The Bund,
SHANGHAI.
Sir,
Further to the reports made to the Swiss Consul General in Shanghai by Mr. D.W.M. Price, Solicitor of Shanghai, in February and March 1942 that the under- signed, B. Percy Dillon of the above Company, had been arrested and confined in an unknown place by the Japan- ese Authorities in Shanghai, I append hereto particulars
of my arrest and confinement.
On the 14th day of February 1942 I received a telephone message at my apartment in Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, The Bund, from the Japanese Naval Head- quarters at the Cathay Hotel, Shanghai, to meet Captain Inuzuka of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the American Masonic Temple, 178 Route Dufour, Shanghai, of which there are many British Members, and of which I am Hon.
At the time Secretary for several of its branches. appointed, 11 a.m. on Sunday 15th February 1942, Captain K. Inuzuka, (I have his personal card in my possession) arrived accompanied by Mr. M. Shibata, member of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, also a Japanese woman named Shumei who said she was Captain Inuzuka's
Secretary, and also a photographer.
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