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of Mananging Director of this newspaper, to which he was reported
in the Chinese press to have been appointed. Another person is acting
in this post meanwhile.
(iii) with reference to paragraph (a) (ii) in the appreciation
in this series dated 18th November, 1946, a certain Canton faction
sought to make the Kowloon Hawker incident the pretext for a boycott
of Hong Kong. The Canton Provincial Governor and the Nanking authorities,
including it is said even T.V. Soong, nipped this in the buï and
advised that the matter should be left for settlement through diplomatic
channels. Another incident in which a Chinese was accidentally shot
on the frontier by a British soldier is being linked with the hawker
incident: the victims in each case are being publicised by photographs
and inflammatory, misinformed articles in certain sections of the
Chinese press and are already acquiring something of the status of
national heroes or martyrs. There is even talk of collecting subsecrip-
tions for the erection of a permanent memorial on the frontier to the
deceased person. Mr. T.W. Kwok, who has recently returned to his post
here from Nanking, where, he is believed to have incurred some reproof
from the Kuomintang chief, General Wu Te-chen, has advised the local