布政司署 BY BAG
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香港下亞風舉道
本署檔號 OUR REF.J T S 7/1162/46 VI
來阻擋號 YOUR REF.:
Ms S PARES
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
FAR EASTERN SECTION
F CO
Daier Susan
CHENG MING
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIA
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
29 May 1978
ms Whitrihend
Mo O'Brian
no Tayar Тад
RO
19.6.
You wrote to Charles Drace-Francis on 23 November last year about this journal. I under- stand that Charles may have sent some background on it to you via Valery Givson. We have now learnt that the major influence behind the magazine is WAN Fai (3306/3549), a former WEN WEI PAO employee, whose wife still works for the newspaper. Apparently, the CHENG MING is now financially self-supporting and receives no support or direction from the NCNA. However, it takes a pro-Peking line and given WAN's background and continuing contacts with local Communist press circles here, it clearly counts as a United- Front publication.
Yours ever,
Lain
(I C Orr)
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RE Allen Esq FED, F CO
K C Walker Esq Assessments Staff Cabinet Office
Chancery, Peking
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