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hinder or prehudice the cause of the United Nations or the prose- cution of any war in which any of such Nations were engaged.
In the light of these provisions of the law the charges against Shum and the answers and explanations which he made in reply to them have been very carefully considered, and I have come to the con- clusion, with the advice of my Executive Council, that, notwith- standing the desire that I have to co-operate with Your Excellency in this and in all other matters to the utmost possible extent, it is not open to me to order that this man should be surrendered. 4.
The first of the charges against Shum, as set out in Your Excellency's letter of 20th August, 1946, is that he was the publisher of the puppet vernacular Wah Kiu daily newspaper when Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation and that in this capacity he acted in the interests of the enemy and denounced China and her Allies. It is not, of course, denied by Shum that he was the publisher of the Kah Kiu nowspaper during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. As Your Axcellency is aware, the Wah Eiu newspaper was and still is the paper with the largest circulation in Hong Kong and as soon as the Japanese found Shum after the surrender of the Colony they gave him peremptory orders to continue publication. Specific orders wore also given to the members of the staff pro- hibiting their departure fræi ilong Kong and insisting on immediate and continued publication. Chum had a large family in Hong Kong and it would have been extremely difficult for him to disobey the Japanese or attempt to flee without danger of serious reprisals. For the first six months of 1942 he was compelled to eat and sleep