U Files Reports made 1940-1945 during the Japanese Occupation

These 73 files are found in in Rolls 62-63.

It is important to keep in mind that any claims in these documents must be viewed with great care. SMP police records are filled with stereotypes, rumor, gossip, slander, and unsubstantiated claims about the individuals it reports on.

Box	Roll	File	Folder Title/Contents	Link	Date	Notes	Pages
116	62&63	4	Public buying rouble notes of czarist regime	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2506 https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2507	1944.1.23	No discussion of rouble notes in second document, but rather of election of Russian Emigrants Committee heads.	40, 2
116	62	34	Result of investigations re “Central Trust and Trading Co.” M.N. Lootsky, proprietor
116	62	57	Rodkin, A. Z. - chairman of Polish Aid Society
116	63	79	Visit to French police re census of Russian emigrants	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2531			1
116	62	80	Re 22 cases supporting gun cartridges	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2508	1943	Evidence that political prisoners have established connections with people outside the prison. File on Iosif Berisovitch Fainberg, b. Harbin 1913, file Joseph R. Laskowski, Polish b. Vladivostok, file Albert Rosenbaum, Polish arrested by Japanese, file Anna Rosenbaum, file Julian Lucian Koshmann, file Pevzner Jacov Alexandrovich Soviet citizen	4
116	62	89	Meeting of the Union of Russian Monarchists on 21-6-42
117	62	140C	R. Grutley alias R. H. Kehrwayn
117	62	196C	Ionin, Joseph - now under accusation of forgery
117	62	208	Re political prisoners in S.M. gaol	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2519			23
117	62	221	Re letter submitted by Mr. Kahan, headmaster of Shanghai Jewish school	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2516	1943.3.6	Headmaster of the Shanghai Jewish School 544 Seymour Road for around 400 students. Program of entertainment for 1943.3.21, with Hebrew text.	13
117	62	223	Change of status of Mr. E. A. David	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2477	1943.2	Status of German versus German Jewish refugee. Attempt to obtain Axis resident certificate without “J” stamp.	3
117	62	224	Information re G. Kuchmar, Gabriel (alias George) Kuchmar
117	62	225	The birthday celebration of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji
117	62	226	Re Mr. Leonard T. Ivanoff	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2518	1943.3	Application for position in film censoring office. Russian by birth, German by education. Member of local German organisations.	4
117	62	227	Arrest of male Russian found in possession of a sum of $10,000.00 in Fapi
117	62	228	Re two German Jewish refugees reported to be missing from Wayside District
117	62	229	H. E. Duldner - Austrian Jew
117	62	232	Georgy Fedorovich Horoshkoff-Kemerhoff	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2490	1943.3	Russian born Moscow. Educated Commercial School of M U Lermantoff in Moscow. Used to have Soviet passport, arrived Shanghai from Harbin 1937.5. Established “Little Book Store” at 1012 Av. Joffre dealing in old books and second hand articles. Supt. Kobayashi: he is “definitely engaged in subversive and political work.” Distributes old Soviet journals	11
117	62	233	Anna Semenovna Migulina, an undesirable element	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2471	1942.3	Drawing teacher, Russian emigre. Accusations about family.	2
117	62	234	Re attached communication from Heinz Glaser applying for a testimony of conduct
117	62	235	Indian Sporting Association	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2515	1943.7	Listing of newly elected leaders under chairman Chanan Singh Sandhu	4
117	62	236	Rumours re sudden death of Mrs. V. Kolotinsky
117	62	237	Erich Jacobrohn, Timon Reismann	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2485	1943.6	Stateless refugee	9
117	62	238	Carl A. Sanborn - Mrs. Allie Sanborn	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2475	1943.4	Three old girl Carol registered as American, taken to Swiss consulate and then St Joseph's Convent pending instructions from Japanese military authorities. Report on death of the mother, Dao Ai Lee from Suzhou, female Chinese married to an American James Gordon Sanborn due to burns 1943.3.25. Evening gown cuaght fire from electric heater. Husband in internment camp.	6
117	62	239	General personal inquiries - Julius Lesem Jewish affairs [Microfilm includes U241 and U243 in this case]	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2489			127
117	62	241	Gamdonthor Singh	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2488	1943.3	Sikh, arrived from India 1925, employed with Japanese ice factory in Hankow, left for India 1936, then back to Shanghai 1939 worked as watchman, then with police as watchman in general hospital. To Nanking in 1941 and back to Shanghai 1943, employed at Towa Iron Work as watchman.	2
117	62	242	Application to carry/keep firearms by Joseph Spalter	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-3272	1943.1.29		3
117	62	243	Herman Hone Dr. Phil. H.C., to visit Dr. Gunther
117	62	244	Activities of Mr. Suval	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2470	1943.4.6	Graduated Moslim College Pasnawar, India 1921. Arrived Shanghai 1926 formed Savul & Co. president of Indian Merchant Association. Head of local branch of Indian Independence League	2
117	62	343	Re departure of Puran Singh (Varana)
117	63	344	Mr. W. Kaufmann [Microfilm header reads U334]	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-3273	Hard to read	1
117	62	346	Alexander Georgievich Demishieff
117	62	347	List of Thai and Burmese nationals who came to register
117	62	348	Carlos Hieper Encarnacao	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2476	1943.12		13
117	62	349	Detention of Ivan L. Kovalchuk-Meller	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2482	1943.11	Charge of attempted intimidation and impersonation.	22
117	63	352	Re Miss Alice Zlotnicki	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2517	1944.2.17	Report on upcoming marriage to Alexander Menczer. Finances	8
117	62	354	Activities of Miss Elsie Wong	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2469	1943.10	British educated Hong Kong born Chinese	5
117	63	419	Miss Helen Alexeyev Gourova	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2499	1944.1	Born Vladivostok, to Harbin 1922 until 1931, secretary at Import & Export firm, regsitered with the Russian Emigrants' Committee	3
117	63	420	The Shanghai Credit Corporation	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2530	1944.1		3
117	63	421	Daniloff, Viacheslav Viacheslavovich	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2479	1943.9	educated in Vladivostok, to Harbin 1922, Tianjin later. 1925 to Shanghai, graduated from “E Knige Phisical Culture Academy” worked as physical instructor then drummer. 1931 worked in Nagasaki as a musician then 1935 to Manila and 1933 in Hong Kong, 1927 in Hankow, Chefoo and Tsingtao. Musician until 1942, sisters are ballet dancers in the Philippines. “ardent White Russian”	2
117	63	422	Re registration of local residents - Irish	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2520	1944	Irish residents who still had British passports and were under protection of British consulate, upon re-registering received red bands for “enemy nationals” and after Eire Residents Association 1942.11, requested instead blue bands for “neutral” nationals but without result. A few with Irish passports received blue bands.	4
117	63	423	Re dispute over ownership of a piano	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2511	1942.11		3
117	63	426	Re arrest of one Joao Thomaz D’Aquino Collaco, Portuguese
117	63	427	Mr. J. Pure requesting the issue of special passes to him and to members of his family
117	63	428	[Document written in Russian - no translation]	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-3274			5
117	63	429	Mr. Salomon Arbeit	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2502	1944.2	Theft of pattern for furcoats “which are my invention and secret”	4
117	63	430	Re Indian marriage	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2514/	1944.2	Charlotte Wgrzyn, daughter of polish refugees, married her employer Mr. Deman, who “enjoys a very good reputation.”	1944.2
117	63	431	Re Doctor K. V. I. Andersen, Dane	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2512	1944	Doctor using “electrical treatment” of the heart. 1943 request for pass, 1944 asking for special pass to be cancelled.	4
117	63	432	Dolgoff, Nikolai Sergeevich; Dolgoff, V.S.; and Sediakin, N.V.; antecedents and character
117	63	434	Re death of prisoners who were detained in the detention house
117	63	441	Manuscript by V. D. Jiganoff entitled “About Myself”	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2496	1944.2	Vladimir Danilovich Jiganoff, born Russia, served in Admiral Kolchak's White Army 1918-9. Worked in fisheries after war, arrested by bolsheviks 1925, sent to Vladivostok, made way to Shanghai 1925. 1939 book withi impressions of visiting Japan 1938-9 with high praise. 1940 in Shanghai registered “Shanghai Society for promotion of study of Nipponese language” as president, but existed on paper only. On text produced after outbreak of war with Germany criticising defeatism in war and Soviet regime.	11
117	63	463	Complaint against Vladimir Tatischef	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2478	1944.2.4	Failure to produce promised bags of sugar	2
117	63	473	Enquete sur Nicolas Ermolaeff
117	63	582	Mr. Emil Essig
117	63	583	Re house case between Mrs. Metzler and da Matta
117	63	586	Knox, John Frederick, British subject - attempted suicide	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2493	1944	Exempt from internment due to full blindness following acid attack.	4
117	63	591	“Activities of Alexander Aleandrovich Boiko”	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2468	1944.10		2
?	?	592	Janaury 28 Incident - Activities	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2472	1941.1	(Not in List) Anniversary of 1932 Jan 28 incident details.	9
117	63	594	Russian Emigrants club	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2527 https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2528/page/n1/mode/2up	1944.10	Group of Russian Jews finance the club. Opening of club thanks to sympathetic view of Japanese military authorities. Opening of arts club 1943.1, accused of being a gambling den, and shut down. Reopened, details of gambling operations. List of individuals involved. Second file with clips.	13
?	?	599	Park Hotel Unrest Among Discharged Employees	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2505	1942	(Not Listed) unrest among discharged employees.	6
117	63	619	Re alleged misappropriation of U.S.A. $45,000.00 and jewelry reported by a political prisoner, one named Albert Rosenbaum [Microfilm header reads U613]
117	63	621	Ribálov, Vera and Maria Ribálov	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2524	1944.12	Born Vladivostok, arrived in Shanghai from Harbin 1932.	2
117	63	623	Declaration of General Andrey Andreevich Vlasov distributed by German information service
117	63	624	Reference J. M. da’Silva D’Aquino and Maitland and Co., Ltd.
117	63	625	Edeltrud Grunücke	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2484	1944.12	German female, consulate demands her passport.	4
117	63	626	Wladimir Sirkausoff [Microfilm header reads U636]	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2532	1944.12	employee of German Radio Station, White Russian	3
117	63	628	Dee Lay Juo criminal case	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2481			5
117	63	629	Complaint of E. Halpern	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-3275	1944		2
117	63	631	Francisco Endaya	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2487	1944.11	“young boy of unsteady character” found guilty of theft vagrancy, Spanish citizen	2
117	63	632	Levald Verner, Danish	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2494		Danish employee of Greater Northern telegraph arrived 1928, then Rice Control Officer for SMC, chairman of Danish Reading Circle, married to Russian.	2
117	63	634	Michael Berezza, Russian emigrant	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2498	1944.12	Domestic strife	5
117	63	635	Moszepan Grigery Pakovich	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-2500	1945.3	request to the police to stop abusive behavior of M. Zimmermann	2
117	63	—	Stateless of Russian origin
117	63	636	History of Morris Gershekovitch, British	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-3276	1944.12	British subject with Russian parents, born in Singapore, educated in Hong Kong and Singapore. Worked as reporter until 1935, worked for shipping concern Lee Bros in Swatow, eventually enlisted withi Shanghai municipal police 1940.11.11. Terminated service with SMP 1943.12 due to his nationality.	2
117	63	637	Inge Wolff	https://archive.org/details/smpa-files-3277	1944.12	Adoption of German female Inge Wolff as daughter renamed Ting Gee Hwa	4