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lemorandum by the Hong Kong Propaganda Committee in reply
to H. B. M. Minister's Circular to Consuls To. 23.
The Hong Kong Committee have for some time given most anxious
consideration to the question of the effect produced on the
Chinese by the Cheng Pao and the Shanghai News Sheet.
The Committee have consulted persons who have been actively
engaged in distributing these papers in South China and have
also consulted the leading members of the Chinese community
in Hong Kong, who are accustomed to be consulted by the Hong
Kong Government on all questions affecting the Chinese. The
conclusions at which the Committee have arrived are al
follows:-
The Illustrated Cheng Pão.
The Committee believe that although the Chinese undoubtedly
like this paper, in the same way that they like all pictures
or illustrated Calendars, that it has practically no effect whatever and prodfees no sort of pro-British or pro-Allied
setiment.
It
This paper seems to be designed for Mohammedan readers.
is probable that no Yohammedans are ignorant of Baghdad,
Egypt and Palestine. The bazaars are full of talk of these
places and the pictures come as an illustration of the bazear
talk and are doubtless most interesting.
We believe that roughly speaking no Chinese has ever heard
of these places and it is impossible to get them to take any
interest in them.
Many pictures are devoted to the doings of Indians.
The Southern Chinese call Indians "Holo devils" and know
them only as watchman and dislike them cordially.
The Cheng Pao fails because II it does not give the Chinese
the