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to describe the Agency as the official organ of the liberated areas of China, presumably in an attempt to disruise its connections. For the same reasons, the suggestion that Arthur CLEGG should become officially connected with the Agency was turned down, At the same tine, CHEN and WONG have been encouraged to maintain close, but discreet, touch with the British Party through the medium of Jack WODDIS, Chairman of the Party's Far Eastern Committee.
INTERNAL CONTACTS IN TI UNITED KIN DOL
33. Some of the more notable recipients of the NEW CHINA. NEWS AGENCY bulletins in the U.K. include:-
(a) The "Daily Worker" (daily bulletins as well),
(b) The Secretary of the "Metal Worker" (official organ of
the engineer and Allied trade Shop Stewards' National Council).
(c) Philip PIRATIN, M.?.
34. At the end of January, 1949, the Polish Embassy in London made enquiries about the subscription rates, etc., of the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY bulletins.
35. A certain number of Chinese in this country are on the mailing list. especially students at universities, and in particular those at Liverpool University.
EXTERNAL CONTACTS OF LONDON BRANCH,
36. Recipients on the overseas mailing list of the London-published bulletin of the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY are said to include:-
(a) AUSTRIA,
KOSTMANN, c/c "Oesterreichische Volkstinme" (Editor of the communist daily paper published in Vienna in November, 1947, but shown as the London "Daily Worker" correspondent in October, 1948, and now reported to have resigned owing to differences of opinion with the Chief Editor).
(b) BELGIUM.
"Renovation" (newspaper).
(c) CANADA.
World News Service, Toronto.
National Federation of Labour Youth, Toronto,
(a) CZECHOSLOVAKIA,
"Prague News Letter" (fortnightly paper giving Czech news).
TELEPRESS, Prague.
Peter CHIEN, c/o I. U. S., Prague
Indian Students in Prague,
Czecho-Slovakian Communist Party (also a monthly summary).
(e) FRANCE.
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