Kong. The list included General Chang Chun, Dr. Sun Fo, Dr. T.V. Soong, General Lung Yun, General Ho Ying-chin, General
Chang Fa Kuei and General Wei Li-huang, the last Nationalist Commander-in-Chief in Manchuria. Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, the Foreign Minister, is also reported to have an agent looking out for a house for him.
4.
The Leftist press continues to splash reports tending to show the United States in an adverse light, such as the sending of United States Marines to Shanghai, an alleged plan whereby United States planos would use Hong Kong and similar reports which could be interpreted as menacing China's sovereignty and intervoning in her domestic affairs. A statement issued by ten Formosan Nationalists bodies represonted in Hong Kong denouncing the proposed moving of the Chinese Government from Nanking to Formosa, also appeared in the press. The seventh anniversary of the Pearl Herbour incident on December 8th led to a number of editorials denouncing United States building up of Japan. The British policy of neutrality in China received generally favourable comment.
5.
An office of the Overseas Chine se Affairs Commission, which is a Chinese Government Department, opened up in Hong Kong during November, despite informal representations previously made to Mr. T.W. Kwok, Chinese Special Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, to the effect that the Hong Kong Government would regard such an office as unnecessary and unwelcome. Cheung Hau Chik, the Director of this Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission Branch, has now been told by the Secretary for Chine se Affairs to close down the office but to date he has not done so. The alleged purpose of the office was to care for overseas Chinese passing through Hong Kong on their return from foreign countries.
6.
The Kowloon City issue showed that it is merely dormant, when, on November 27th the so-called Kowloon City Residents' Association held a meeting to elect a new Committee. Some seventy or so squatters still sleep over- night on the site, but apart from this manifestation there have been no signs of trouble. The Kowloon City Residents' Association have no funds, and so far as the squatters are concerned, they are, apart from the political aspect of the question, merely a small factor in the huge squatter problem with which the Colony is afflicted.
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