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reaching Canton./
(iv) Another official attached to the Foreign Affairs
Department, Tokyo, arrived from Macau in company with a Brazilian
Army Major, and left together for Japan by the first available ship. They both conversed in Portuguese.
(v) Colonel ISHINO, the local suspect language study officer, has been making frequent trips to liacau recently, and it is reported that on at least one occasion he met other Japanese Military officers who had journeyed from Canton for the purpose of holding a meeting.
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Major-General TANAKA, Chief of Staff of the South China Expeditionary Force, paid an official visit to Hong Kong,
accompanied by two other kilitary officers (one of whom was formerly stationed in Hong Kong as a language study officer) in connection with the Japanese bombing of ritish territory. After a short stay they left for Macau where they paid their respects to the Governor, who, incidentally left for Portugal by air on 4.4.39.
6.
One local Japanese resident died as a result of wounds inflicted by an embittered Chinese, who has since been committed for trial. "part from this, no marked anti-Japanese insidents have come to notice during the quarter.
C.R.R.
12.4.39.
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