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Extracts from letters of Chinese and American Journalists
Hong Kong July 6th. - 11th. 1946.′
"Sun Chimeng of National Association of Vocational Education has just arrived from Shanghai and says that conditions are getting so bad in Shanghai that most of the intellectuals want to move down here and that definitley Hong Kong will be the final stronghold.
"S.K.Yee who helped MacDougall to get out of Hong Kong during the Pacific War was arrested by the Gendarmerie in the Peninsula Hotel without notifying the H.K.Authorities. This matter has been held up for several days before the H.K.Government gave in. This will be a precedent in future if the Kuomintang want anyone who is anti-Kuomintang, the H.K.Government will hand him over. But I HOPE NOT. This would mean that the II.K.Government is helping the Fascists in China. We all hope that the H.K.Government will fight for freedom and the liberty of the Chinese who criticise the Kuomintang. We hope you will draw the attention of Mr.Creech Jones to the above matter. Very few officials in H.K. are able to handle the situation. 11
"A lot of merchandise is going into Canton from here, much of it smuggled by CINRRA trucks, the Chinese Army being largely beyond control ofany British Authority even when operating in British territory They have to hand culpbits over to the Chinese Command who, of course, are in the racket. One Chinese Officer, Major-General S.K.Yee, not a bad guy, but a terrific trader, was suddelny arrested by Chinese gendarmes in the Peninsula Hotel. The British interfered to save him on the grounds that he had left the Army sometime ago. The KMT gang, who had organised this attack because Yee was probably not giving them a rake off, went as high as the Generalissimo to get a certificate that Yee was still an officer and the British had to let the gendarmes cart him off to Canton.
"The KMT will create more incidents in the future. They control all newspapers except mine the only independent newspaper in #.K., who will support the H.KGovernment. We have tried to help it to settle the strikes created by the KMT through our good relations with the labourers in H.K. Not one of the offi- cials appreciate our work. They don't approach us to co-operate with them. The Democratic League is beginning to be a power- ful organisation in H.K. Its purpose is to help the Chinese to understand the present situation in China. Why doesn't the H.K.Government approach them and give a helping hand? If the British Government wishes to stay in H.K. it has to find demo- cratic people to support the cause.
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"Kuomintang is carrying on all-out propaganda in H.K. deter- mined to discredit H.K. because its efficiency is too much of a slap at KMT mismanagement." The most important point is to convince the Chinese here that Britain has changed. Clark Kerr was more left-wing than anybody over here now. •MacDougall is all right but he is disillusioned and out of contact with the left-wing, as he mostly sees crooks naturally he is disillusio- ned with them. Young is not so bad but he represents all that went on before and the Chinese do not understand why a Labour Govern-
ment appointed him.