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said that the reply has an important relation with the future attitude taken by the Chinese people. He expressed great sympathy towards the villagers.
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An article on the subject of "The Culture and Education of Hongkong" has been written by the Journalists dission and published by most of the leading newspapers in Canton on 28th November, 1945. It says that since “ongkong was leased to Great Britain, education in ongkong is tinged with 'colonial education'. Although SO of the population in Hongkong is Chinese, yet they look upon the study of English as more important then that of Chinese, thus, rendering the study of English more important than that of Mandarin. Therefore, under the status of education in longkong, students are educated to met the living environments in Hongkong. It attacks those newspapers which remained in Hongkong during the period of occupation by the Japanese and propagated for the Japanese. It gives a list of Chinese newspapers now existing in Hongkong such as, Sing To Yat Po, Fah Kiu Yat o, Shi Si Yat 20, Chun Wan Yat Po, Shing Po, Kwo Yin Po, Ching Po, Chung Wah Sheung Po, So Tong ro, "ah Sing Po, ko. It also gives a rough figure of the number of Government, Government-aid, and private schools in nongkong prior to the hostili- ties and at the present.
The Chin Fung Fvening News published (on 27 Nov.) an article about longkong of its 10 distinguishing points:-
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(1) All the large hotels, such as Gloucester, Peninsular, &c. have been commandeared by the British Military and Civil Officers.
(2) Outwardly, Hongkong maintains its peace, but, in reality, robbery, burglery, kc., happen frequently.
(3) Prices of commodities have risen about 10-15
times above that of pre-war.
(4) Dancing, cabarets and theatres are doing good
business. Infested with prostitutes.
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