English Translation

- 72 - l4. Furthermore, the activity of the Czechs in the Far East is relatively small according to the previous= reports. According to the German Embassy in Shanghai, about 1 00 members of the local Czech community celebrated Masaryk's birthday in the Czechoslovak club on 7 March 1940. Of more well-known Czechs, the former Czechoslovak Ge= sent Jan § e ba, as well as the representative of Škoda's works, U r b á n e k. After a long speech, the Czechoslowak, English and French National= hymns were sung. At the beginning of l940, a certain Rudolf H e r m a n was founded by the Czechoslovak National Council of the Philippine Islands, which actively engaged in the Czech resistance movement and developed a fairly active activity with connections to America and Asia. - 73 -