INWARD
TELEGRAM
This document must be paraphrased if the communication of its contents to any person outside Government Service is authorised.
3
Cypher
FROM HONG KONG (Sir M. Young)
TO S. CF S.. COLONIES.
D. 16th June, 1946, R. 16th
IMMEDIATE
No. 351 Secret.
ft
16,00 hrs.
JUN
1
Following for the S. of S. repeated to British Ambassador Nanking No, 11, repeated by savingram to British Consul General Canton No. 525,
no Prif
2 My telegram No. 350. no
Suppression for period of one month of newspaper "The National Times" was ordered by the Governor in the Executive Council on 8th June under Regulation 24 made under Section 2 of Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, published in Government Gazette of 7th October, 1938 Order was made in consequenes of publication of an article in issue ef 7th June on the subject of an alleged order by Canton Headquartere that Shum Wal Yau, the proprietor of another Hong Kong newspaper, should be arrested and taken into China. The article calls upon members of the public to assist the (Chinese) Government to capture Shum Wai Yau alive, to boycott his newspaper, and "to smash the newspaper to pieces". N.B. Chinese members of the Executive Council assured me that this last statement in original Chinese must be taken to refer to physical, not figurative, violence.
20
Facts about Shum Wai Yau are as follows;~
(1) He owns a newspaper which continued publication in Hong Kong during the Japanese undoubtedly reproduced Japanese propaganda;
sccupation and
/(11)
Copy sent to:-
Foreign office
Private Secretary.