Darell DRAKE [1891-1970]

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai, by Robert Bickers:

The SMP Special Branch kept an eye on these, and also undertook reports for foreign consulates, from foreign police forces about arrivals from Shanghai and suspects with a Shanghai past, as well as following up tip-offs about suspicious characters. James Barton, an MI6 officer based at the British Consulate-General, put in a request for information about one Darrell Drake, recently arrived in Hong Kong in October 1937 and ‘regarded with suspicion on account of his close association with Japanese and certain undesirable foreigners’. No wonder, was the response, given his twenty-five-year Shanghai record of ‘heavy gambling, fornicating, drunken bouts of whiskey drinking... and associating with many local shady characters’ while serving as a highly respectable (and heavily indebted) teacher in the SMC’s Public School for Boys.

p.224, Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong, by Vaudine England:

Under consideration for trial were men such as Darrell Drake, a teacher in Japan who had married a pro-German Norwegian lady. He was a heavy gambler and drinker and, when he went on leave to Shanghai and then Hong Kong in September 1937, was reported to have business connections with the Japanese, and with a known German arms smuggler; he then worked for a Japanese news agency in Hong Kong and during the war worked on the pro-Japan Hongkong News.

Carl Smith card 95769 says Drake died in Hong Kong in 1970, aged 79.  He'd come to Hong Kong from Shanghai with his family in 1947, where he had taught at Thomas Hanbury School with Billy Tingle.