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nows which the Propaganda Committee supplies.
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The Hongkong Committee has been in close
touch throughout with the Shanghai Committee. There can be no doubt that South China can be more easily controlled from Hongkong than from Shanghai and it is the purpose of the Hongkong Committes to deal with the Provinces of Kwongtung. Kwonguai, Kwai chau and Yunnan. The Shanghai Committee as Your Lordship is doubtless aware has obtained the sanction of the Foreign Office to the publication of a Commercial Paper in Chinese which is called the "Cheng Pao".
The Hongkong scheme will not interfere in
any way with the Shanghai scheme.
In the first place it would be impossible
for a paper published in Shanghai to have a normal circula- -tion in South China, for the news would be stale before the paper could reach the reader. And in the second place I think that it must be recognised that news which appears in a paper which is admittedly & British organ is less likely to impress than news which appears in the ordinary course as part of a vernacular paper's news columns.
The Hongkong Committee however hope to
be able to supply the "Chen Pao" with advertisements.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce has just purchased a newspaper, called the "Chung Ngoi Sheung Po" and proposes to run this as a Commercial Paper in the interests of Anglo-Chinese trade. This paper will also be on the Committee's list for advertisements.
It must also be remembered that no firm
would advertise in only one Chinese newspaper. The British American Tobacco Company advertise in about twenty-six Vernacular Papers. The Hongkong and Shanghai Committees will therefore carry out their several schemes and give each other such mutual assistance as may be possible.
Two members of the Committee are at
present