Special Report No. S-32. Shanghai, China. November 14, 1939 - 15p

(Required Report: Request of Commercial LAws Division, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, dated July 20, 1939). 

Makes a preliminary distinction between two geographical areas in China, colloquially known as (1) the Japanese "occupied" areas of the eastern seaboard under the direct military control of Japanese authorities or Japanese sponsored Chinese local administrative "puppet" units; and (2) "Free" China, still under the control of the Chinese National Government, comprising the "southwestern six provinces", plus the various foreign concessions in several treaty ports. 

• Japanese "Occupied" Areas 
• Foreign Concession Areas
  • List of the major purchasing agencies (Chinese government organs) that developed in Hong Kong, in reaction to the remotness of the capital of the Chinese National Government, which has been established in Chongqing since October 1938
• Chinese National Government
• Confidential (American Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai - Resolution regarding the aims and activities of the Universal Trading Coporation, September, 1939)

Includes a tables showing instances of payment of compensation during the months April-July 1937, with the name of company/line of industry, the nature of the accident, the date, the result and the amount and nature of compensation paid.