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5. Hong Kong. The subject of Hong Kong has received Kuaming News considerable publicity, the general line being that (a possibly билат
somewhat shamefaced) Britain would agree to a reasonable Lay for
solution of this problem, seeing that the colony was notoriously August, 1945 obtained in dubious fashion and that the Labour Party has come
into power.
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Typical of the more exaggerated comment was the remark of the Chao Pao (on August 18th) that "the cession of Hong Kong to Great Britain was the result of the Opium War and marked the worst humiliation imposed on China during the last hundred years".
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