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12.
On 6th August, 1948, the office of the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY moved to 374 Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.1.
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In January, 1949, a delicate source reported that the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY was the official organ in England of the Liberated Areas.
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14. The main source of news for the bulletin appears to be wireless information broadcast from the Liberated Areas.
15.
In December, 1947, the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY announced that with effect from 1st January, 1948, a daily bulletin would be issued to a limited number of subscribers in England (at that time six). Information obtained for these bulletins would come by cable/wireless from two sources, the headquarters of the Liberated Areas, and Hong Kong: both sources would give military news, but the Hong Kong office would also produce information on events in the political field.
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In March, 1948, the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY branch in the U.I. received instructions that "no indiscriminate use of items not issued by Headquarters" was to be made; also all correspondents' dispatches were to be passed to Headquarters before release (cf. Tass Agency procedure). Agency was not to take part in any diplomatic or inter-organisational activities.
In addition, the
17. In April, 1948, information was received that the World News Service, Toronto, was in contact with North Shensi and Manchuria and also had a monitor in London who picked up direct reports by wireless, An offer to provide this information to Jack CHEN, for a small charge, was made by the World News Service.
18. In May, 1948, it was reliably reported that Teleradio News Agency had been in contact with Jack CHEN and complained that the frequency used by the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY in North Shensi was most unsuitable and that also on account of jarming it had been found impossible to copy the news,
19. In February, 1949, it was reliably reported that Raymond WONG had been receiving wireless news from North Shensi at about the same time that Teleradio News Agency once again complained of jamming.
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In early march it was reported that Teleradio was still receiving news from North Shensi.
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Later in March, 1949, it was reported that the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY employed an operator to monitor the North Shensi radio broadcasts; a recent change in wave-length had resulted in less interference and, though the day receptions vere still subject to some interference, the evening reception was good.
22 Until the change of wave-length referred to above, reception had been so bad that the London office had, to all intents and purposes relied on the Czechoslovakian office to keep it up to date with news, This news was, therefore, always two days old when published, and consequently news agencies in England were not eager to pay for this tardy service,
23. In late March, 1949, the North Shensi New China News Radio Station was moved to Peiping and became known as the Peiping New China News Radio Station. Details of broadcasts from this station were reportedly at this time:-
(a) Station XNCR
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