" (3)
Your Administration in Kwangtung has nothing to fear
" and democracy has everything to gain from a newspaper not
" under the control of any party.
I am venturing to write this letter entirely
" in a private capacity and have not informed any government
11 agencies that I am doing so. I do not know their attitud e
" to the present ban on the Wah Kij Yat Po, but I do know that
* there is a general desire that the press should be free from
" political control.
Please do not trouble to answer this. I
" know you will do what you can.
n
Yours sincerely,
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(sd.) Ronald Hong Kong
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BISHOP OF HONG KONG. 11
Meantime, the press campaign continued.
26.
Towards the end of May, one Li Tai Chiu, Chief Representa-
tive of the Kuomintang Party in Hong Kong and Macau, made an
approach to Your Petitioner to effect that the party was desirous
of taking over control of the paper and that if such control was
not given, Your Petitioner's name would appear in the List of
Traitors intended to be published in the then very near future.
Your Petitioner's refusal to hand over control led to Li Tai Chiu
going up to Canton to "report" Your Petitioner to Field Head-
quarters and on the 6th June, 1946, when General Chang Fa Kwei
was away in Nanking, the Second List of Traitors was published
and Your Petitioner's name appeared as the 98th of a total of
100.
27. On the following day, there appeared in Chang Hoo-sang's
newspaper (the National Times) a leading article calling upon
the local Chinese to help the Chinese Government by capturing
Your Petitioner alive and by smashing up the Wah Kiu Yat Po
The immediate reaction to this article was the order of His
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