13.
Early on,
i.e., in the month of January, 1946, one Chang
Hoo-sang, the publisher of the National Times (the Kuomintang
Party Organ in Hong Kong) attempted the first of a series of
blackmailing attempts against Your Petitioner and against Your
Petitioner's newspaper.
14.
The said Chang Hoo-sang (self-styled "local representa-
tive of the Information Department in Chungking") approached
Your Petitioner and asked him to "demonstrate his loyalty to
the Central Government" by joining in the Chinese press campaign
of agitation:-
15.
(a) against the construction of the Ping Shan Airfield
(Villagers in that district had on Kuomintang Party
agitation refused to permit the Hong Kong British
Government to re-enter their lands on the very fair
scheme set up. The main purpose of such Kuomintang
agitation was to counter the unfavourable implication
arising from the British authorities expending a
considerable sum of money in the construction of an
airfield in the leased New Territories, this implica-
tion being the obvious one that the British were not
returning Hong Kong to China either in the near future
or at all); and
(b)
on the question of the return of Hong Kong to China by
the British.
Your Petitioner refused to join in either campaign and
incurred the serious displeasure of the Kuomintang representa-
tive in Hong Kong.
16.
Your Petitioner craves leave, at this stage, to refer to
the position then and still extant today in Hong Kong in respect
of Chinese newspapers. Except for Your Petitioner's newspaper
and one or two other vernaculars recently published and with a
smaller circulation, (such other papers coming under the
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