11.
4.
The Kuomintang has always put the education of Chinese
youth in its political tenets, which of course are those of its
founder Dr. Sun Yat Sen, in the forefront of its programme of
propaganda. It is estimated that in Hong Kong the party has
some thirty-five private schools under its influence. In all
private schools it endeavours to hold ceremonies on Chinese
national occasions, at which there is a ritual observance
towards the picture of Dr. Sun, and "community" shouting of
Party "slogans". Grants-in-aid from Party funds are said to
be promised to schools which show themselves to be very amenable
to control, but it is not known if any such grants have actually
yet been paid. Another phase of its efforts to educate Chinese
youth, appears in the organisation known as the "Three Peoples
Principles Youth Corps", which has a Hong Kong branch. This
Youth Corps is believed to train its members chiefly in the work
of collecting intelligence of a political nature and of petty
spying on opponents of the Party, or on persons who do not show
any particular readiness to be brought into the fold..
12. The Party aims at complete control of the vernacular
press in Hong Kong and has attained this for all practical pur-
poses except in the case of a few unimportant newspapers. Its
methods in achieving control are illustrated in the case of the
Wah Kiu Yat Po, the Chinese daily with the largest circulation.
By accusations of collaboration against the person who had been
editor during the Japanese occupation, and by a process which
amounted to systematic blackmail, it got its men into the
management and staff of this paper, which has lost its tradi-
tional independent point of view and now reflects the views of
the Kuomintang.
13.
The
The support of Labour is valuable to any Chinese
political party because of the lever thereby obtained, to imple-
ment political ends, in the shape of the general strike.
method is to support individual unions in disputes as to wages