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Ref: PRO/987A/3.
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF HONG KONG PRESS REPORTS & COMMENTS
June 17, 1947.
1.
CHINA.
The nation-wide demonstrations said to have been planned by students for June 2 did not take place, but the Press evidently does not regard the "student crisis" as having passed. The Hwa Shiang Pao (sympathetic to the Communists) speaks of the assaults on, and arrests of, students, professors and newspaper men as "blood debts which must be paid". The Wah Kiu Yat Po deplores an incident in Canton on June 2, when several hundred labourers, carrying arms, paraded the streets demanding vengeance "for fellow workers beaten up by students". This paper askes why the autho- rities allowed such a demonstration and why the cases of the labourers who were beaten up should not be dealt with in the ordi- nary course of law, and asserts that in allowing such incidents the authorities are merely playing in the hands of the Communists.
The Wah Kiu Yat Po (June 2) also discusses tendency of China's youths to move to the left. It is of the opinion that the tendency is not due to any liking for the positive aspects of Communism, but is due to acute dissatisfaction with mis-government and corruption under the present Kuomintang agent.
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The Kwor Yin Yat Po of June 4 reports the People's Political Council as passing resolutions calling for, amongst other things the prohibition of illegal arrests by secret service organisations, and the protection of freedom of the press.
The National Times of June 6 blames the continuance of the Civil War entirely on the Communists. The Wah Kiu Yat Po of the same day seems to consider that the continuance of the war is due to the dominance of the military cliques in the councels of the Kuomintang. It is suggested that Chiang Kai-shek, though sympa- thetic to the progressive and anti-war element, is unable to restrain the military element.
The Wah Kiu Yat Po of June 6 sees in the recent disposition of troops on both sides in making of a decisive battle between the Kuomintang and the Communists.
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