Enclosure to Canton P/L despatch No.4 (5/1-1/52) 8 18.1:52
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1. (Special) On January 10, eight Chinese literary and movie workers were deported fron Hongkong without any reasons. After their arrival in Canton they disclosed bitterly how they suffered from the savage and unreasonable persecution by the Hongkong British Government.
Between 4 and 5 in the morning of January 10, & large number inspectors, policemen and special agents of the Hongkong police, arried with machine-guns and rifles, surrounded the residences of Se-ma Wen-hsin, Shu Shih, Liu Ch'iung, Ti Fan, Ch'i Min-shao and Yang Hua. After gaining admittance into the houses these malignant special agents forced the above-mentioned six persons to leave Hongkong immediately without giving any reasons or explanation for their deportation. Ti Fan, a movie actress, has a 5-month old baby, but she was also pushed with the other 5 men into a police van which rushed then through the darkness to the Taipo police station. When Se-na Wen-hsin asked why they were suddenty arrested and what charge was against them, a British inspector caught hold of his coat front violently and shook his fist before him, saying: "This is reason!"
From the Taipo police station they were taken to the Da-ku-ling station where an Englishman in pyjamas read to them a printed document and unreasonably announced: "The Governor ordered you to leave Hongkong for good." They were then taken secretly to a boat which carried them to Lo-fang Village on the Chinese side, which lies on the opposite bank of Da-ku-ling. Se-ma Wen-hsin and the others demanded that they should be sent openly to the Chinese side by the Lo-hu Bridge, but these cowardly running-dogs of imperialism had no courage to accept this just demand.
Between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the same day, Ma Kuo- liang and Tsun-Chi, both noted Chinese writers and screen play- wrights, suffered the same persecution by the British imperialists.
This irrational and savage acts of persecution on the part of the Hongkong Government will inevitably bring about serious protests from the people of all circles of China, particularly literary and artistic circles throughout the country.
It was also reported that Li Wen-hsing, Chief
Representative of the refugees of Tung Tou Village in Kowloon and Hsien Pei-ling and Yao Chien, Director and Secretary of the Kowloon Branch of the Hongkong General Trade Union of Textile and Dyeing industries respectively, were also deported without any reason on January 10.
(Lien Ho Pao)
13.1.52.
2. (Special) Eight patriotic Chinese literary and movie workers, Se-ma Wen-hsin, Ha Kuo-liang, Liu Ch'iung, Shu Shih, Ti Fan, Ch'i Min-shao, Tsun Chi and Yang Hua, who have recently been persecuted and deported without justification by the Hongkong British Government, arrived at Canton in two groups on January 10 and 11. They were warmly welcomed and comforted at the railway station by some 60 representatives of the local press and literary and artistic circles. These eight noted writers and actors have been deprived of their freedom of person and freedom of loving their own fatherland under the reactionary rule of the Hongkong British Government. Between 4 and 11 a.m. on January 10, armed police and detectives of the Hongkong Government broke into their residences, put them under arrest with savage means and forbade them to take any money and personal belongings with them. Later
the same day
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