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Enclosure No.3.

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ACTIVITIES OF GENERAL WU TE-CHEN IN HONG KONG.

Early in 1939 the Central Standing Committee of

the Kuomintang decided at its 117th Meeting that party and

national affairs in Hong Kong needed co-ordination and

strengthening. There had been a certain amount of activity

there ever since the outbreak of war but it had been

sporadic and disconnected, and as far as is known was

limited mostly to legitimate objects, newspaper and other

written propaganda and the collection of funds for war relief and the sale of war bonds. An attempt at the end

of 1937 to organize a central labour union with a view to anti-Japanese work was suppressed by the authorities

and efforts to bring about an organized boycott were

successfully discouraged.

The main objects of the 1939 resolution are

stated to have been:

2.

(1) To increase Kuomintang membership.

(2) Publication of newspapers and other

propaganda.

(3) Subsidizing of schools.

(4) Collection of war funds.

(5) Development of an intelligence and counter

espionage system.

In pursuance of this resolution General Wu Te-chen

arrived in Hong Kong on April 17th, 1939, and opened an

office in Shell House. His staff consists of about ten

persons. He is also chief director of the South West

Printing and Publishing Co. of 6, Des Voeux Road, Central,

which produces two (2) vernacular papers and a quantity of

pamphlets.

3.

On August 22nd, 1939, a man named Sham Sung

a nephew of Wang Ching Wei who was said to be

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