withdrawn 5 kilometres from the Chinese frontier,
(c) full indemnity should be paid to the relatives of
the deceased, and (d) negotiations should immediately
be begun for the retrocession of Hong Kong to China.
campaign developed along the usual lines but died down
towards the end of the month.
The
There are indications that the Central Government
have begun to feel that in their agitation for the retrocession
of Hong Kong the K.M.T. in Canton and Hong Kong have been
going too far, and that they have issued instructions that
this matter should be left to be dealt with through normal
diplomatic channels.
2.
Kuomintang.
In a review of the labour situation in Hong Kong, the
Government Labour Officer has drawn attention to the large
number of associations, clubs, societies and schools pledged
to K.M.T. policy, numbering some 85 in all. As regards labour
itself, the Labour Officer estimated that if the present
activities of the K.M.T. continue as they are doing they
will soon have control of something like 75% of the labour in
the Colony. One means by which the K.M.T. has achieved this
position has been by supporting demands of the labourers
which have no economic justification at the present time.
The Police report that the K.M.T. have been mobilising
the support of Secret Societies in the Colony. General LI FUK LAN
is stated to have been commissioned by Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek to organise the Triad Societies (Hung Moon) under K.M.T.
auspices. 130 members of 13 Triad Societies came to a
reception given by General LI at the end of November at which
they pledged themselves to a policy
(i) to back up the K.M. T. in establishing a
National Government.
(ii) to do away with the Chinese Communist Party
and undesirables trying to upset the National Assembly.
(iii) to back up the K.M.T. in establishing a
new China.
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