Page 136EXTRACT FROM NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY. DAPLY BULLETIN NO.455. DATED MONDAY, 21ST JANUARY, 1952.
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Peking, January 18-19 (NCNA) The deportation of eight Chinese cinema workers by the British Government of Hong Kong is described as an outrage which directly violates the freedom and rights of Chinese people and a menace to peace-loving people throughout the world, in a statement of protest, by the All-China Federation of Literature and Arts Circles.
It shows the true Character of British imperialism in its servile following of the American imperialist aggressive policy and its conspiring with remnant Kuomintang bandits in Taiwan to undermine and suppress the patriotic activities and peace movement of the Chinese people, the statement declares.
It concludes: "We are confident that these criminal ventures will recoil on the heads of the British imperialists as a result of the glorious struggle of people throughout the world, including patriotic Chinese people."
In a letter to progressive cinema workers who are still in Hong Kong, the Shanghai Association of Dramatic and Cinema Workers and three other people's organisations state:
"We are confident that, supported by the just struggle of your fellow-countrymen locally and on the mainland, you will carry forward the cause of progress and unity....with a high spirit of patriotism and will frustrate the manoeuvres and intrigues of the British imperialists in connivance with American and Chaing Kai- shek agents."
At a mass meeting in Shangai on January 17, Yu Ling, Shen Fou, Pai Yang and other outstanding film workers expressed their warm sympathy and solidarity with the deportees. Yeh Yi-chun, director of the privately owned Yangtse and Kunlun joint film studios, said:
"The British Government of Hong Kong has all along attacked her cinema workers by such reactionary measures as censoring scripts, restricting our purchases of film and obstructing our production of films with progressive and patriotic themes. It forced several of our film studios to close down in Hong Kong by this kind of persecution. Now, going further, it dares to deport our cinema workers. We can no longer tolerate these actions.'
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Canton, January 17 (NCNA) More than 16,000 Chinese residents in Tungtou village of Kowloon, who were distressed by a mysterious fire in that village last November, have been suffering ruthless persecution at the hands of the British Government of Hong Kong.
This was told by Li Wen-hsing, the general representative elected by the distressed Chinese, during a meeting held in Canton on January 14 by over 300 representatives from seven local people's organisations.
Li related that after the fire occurred in Tungtou village, the British Government of Hong Kong not only did nothing to aid the refugees, but, on the contrary, continued its savage persecution. On the third day after the fire, British police and some officers came to the fire-ravaged area and forced some 130 refugees to live in a deserted and barren locality. One of the rufugees who refused to demolish his rebuilt house was brutally beaten by the
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