The Archive · 1937

Japan Warns Hongkong

'Tokyo, Dee. 1, 'A "warning" has been given to the Hongkong. authorities by' the Japanese Consul-Genera: there, recording toa Japanese news agency report received here to-day.

The Japanese Consul-General, it says, drew the attention of the colonial authorities "to the fact that number of Chinese Government Teaders who have recently been enfering and leaving Hongkong have been engaged in political activities there opainst Japan."

The Japanese Consul-General requested a complete suppression of these activities, the news agency adds, and delivered a warning that {if the colonial authorities tolerated them any further, "Hongkong might eventually be involved in the current Sino-Japanese dispute."~Reuter, Tokyo, Dee. 4.

It Hongkong ts used by Chinese leaders as a base for anti operations, "a fresh question" might arise, says a semi-official: Tananese

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