Zung Bing told the court that he learned to speak Japanese while apprenticed to a Japanese physician in Hongkew and that he visited Japan a few years ago, perfecting his knowledge. It was therefore natural that when he joined the. "Huang Tao" Society he was called upon to interpret for its Japanese "advisers," chiefly "Konomi-san."
Zung Bing, handsome and debonair, met Konomi through a Japanes friend last November. Konomi was then living in the Astor House and used the name "Tanaka," Zung Bing told the Court. The smart young Chinese, however, soon learned Konomi's real name. It was not long before the two got on friendly terms with each other. Already in January Konomi got Zung a pass to enter the Eastern area. Soon afterwards Konomi asked him to join the "Reformed Government," which in the process of being organized. The headquarters were on the sixth floor of the New Asia Hotel.
On February 3 Zung was one of many Chinese and Japanese who attended a banquet given in the New Asia in honour of Zang Nyoh-tsing (weight, 315 Ib. former prisoner at the Ward Road Jail), who was to be made chairman of the "Huang Tao" Society. Zung well remembers some of the more important persons who attended this dinner. Zung further told the Court that during the first week of February he frequently saw Konomi with the object of obtaining from the Japanese "adviser" a permit for operating a gambling house in Nantao.
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