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Excellency the Governor-in-Council of Hong Kong suspending
the publication of the National Times for one month.
28.
Chang Hoo-sang immediately proceeded to Canton and
working in co-operation with other members of the Kuomintang
Party who had failed to obtain blackmail from Your Petitioner
and/or control of Your Petitioner's newspaper attempted to
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stir up an anti-British movement and even urged a general strike.
29. The period of suspension of the National Times was by
later order of His Excellency-in-Council curtailed to two weeks.
10 30. Shortly before the publication of the List of Traitors
of the 6th June, 1946, i.e., on the 1st June, 1946, a petition
was sent by various Chinese persons and associations in Hong
Kong on behalf of Your Petitioner to General Chang Fa Kwei
reading as follows :
* Submitted :
During the Japanese occupation of Hongkong, Mr.
"Shum Wai Yau, publisher of the 'Wah Kiu Yat Po', confident
" in the belief that our Mother Country would surely win the
" defensive war against aggression and eventually succeed in
* her being reconstructed into a great nation, and that our
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the Japanese, would surely be defeated, had rendered
" very valuable services to his compatriots by means of
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propaganda implied in between the lines of that newspaper;
" he had also exerted every effort to uphold the morale of the
"people and work for the general well-being of the community.
On the liberation of Hongkong, our Supreme Leader's
" (Generalissimo Chiang's) instruction was followed and the
" overseas Chinese were inspired to help in the national
" reconstruction and rehabilitation of a united China.
Two campaigns driving for funds were sponsored, one
" for comforting of the soldiers and the other for relief of
"distress in China; more than C.N.c.$150,000,000 and over
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