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The left-wing press gave prominence to the Communist version of the "Amethyst" incident, the main burden of the argument being to throw the blame on the British warships. Generally speaking local press comment was not sympathetic over this episode, and ever the English-language newspapers felt that by more foresight the matter might have been avoided, the implication being that British warships should not have been at that partiču- lar spot at that particular time. Left-wing propaganda against the Atlantic Pact continues and much space was also devoted to splashing the Paris World Peace Congress, which was a Communist-organised propaganda demonstration designed to discredit the western democratic powers. three left-wing dailies launched a campaign to collect 10,000 signatures in support of the Paris meeting.
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It may be noted that the Sing Tao Yat Po, owned by the Tiger Balm King, Aw Boon-Haw, how appears to have swung round to an independent or even anti-Communist view. It was reported some months ago that Aw Boon Haw had made a deal with local Chinese Communists and that as a result the editorial policy of his paper had changed in a pro- Communist direction. The Sing Tao Yat Po does not however seems to have satisfied the Communists and recently four journalists employed by the paper announced their resigna- tion from it in notices in the three pro-Communist news- papers explaining that they resigned because the paper was pursuing a wrong policy. The four journalists concerned were presumably changing to what they consider the winning side. The English-language newspaper started a few months ago by Aw Boon Haw known as the Hong Kong Tiger Standard has established itself as a well-edited paper and it has
in fact it certainly not got any pro-Communist bias; prints a considerable amount of anti-Communist material.
C. B. B. HEATHCOTE-SMITH