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HONGKONG: CHINA SENDS PROTEST
THE Chinese Government has | homes of eight Chinese cinema sent an official protest to workers, who were placed under the British Government about arrest and then deported. the arrest and ill-treatment of Chinese in Hongkong, which it says are serious."
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A statement by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that the British authorities in Hong- kong used armed police, equipped with armoured cars, tommy-guns and other arms to surround the
This, declares the statement is a serious new development in the United Kingdom's hostile policy to- ward the People's Republic of China, which is the outcome of the Churchill Cabinet's further submis- sion to the U.S."
It demands an immediate end to such atrocities and to provocations against China otherwise the British Government will have to bear full responsibility for all the consequences.'
The statement also charges that Hongkong is being used as a base by Chiang Kai-shek agents in trying to raid into China.
UNION OFFICIALS
In a second group of arrests British authorities have arrested five more Chinese, including two officials of the Hongkong Textile Workers' Union.
Illustrating recent changes in British policy in the Far East, the January 10 issue Far Eastern Economic Review, journal of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hongkong, declared that: "Today Chiang Kai-shek's prestige is re- covering and he is looked upon as an ally of considerable value.'
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