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Appendix B,
13.
In June, 1947, the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY was officially opened in Fleet Street with Jack CHEN, according to a reliable source, temporarily in charge.
14.
In October, 1947, it was reported that Jack CHEN had recently taken part in a B.B.C. programme entitled Observation Post, in which he was designated as a correspondent of the "Daily Worker"
15.
In November, 1947, it was reported from a reliable source that the TASS Agency was paying CHEN for his work as editor of the Telepress supplement
i.e. the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY bulletin. An earlier unconfirmed report had stated that the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY bulletin was merely a subsidiary of Telepress.
16.
In January, 1948, H.B. Lin, editor of the "Malayan Monitor", was in contact with Jack CHEN.
17. In March, 1948, CHEN received a request to give a lecture on China to the artists International Association, Leicester Square, London, and also to the Socialist Society, Coopers Hill Training College, Eghan.
18. At the same time, CHEN was in contact with the British Export Trade Research Organisation in London and arranged that he would pass any economic information to them for publication in their "review", The organisation in return would advertise the existence of the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY,
19. In April, 1948, CHEN was due to speak at the Finchley Trading Hall Discussion Group on "China Today and Tomorrow".
20.
In the sane month, CHEN was going to submit an article to the "London Times" for publication, but it was never printed, In the article, CHEN stated that it was essential that people in Britain should have a clear understanding of the Civil War issue in China now that the Nanking Government was on the verge of collapse. He supported the new Land Reforms, saying that 80% of the Chinese people are peasants, most of whom had been "landless" and debt burdened under the Nanking regine. While not disguising the fact that the Chinese Communist leaders are Marxists, he vehemently denied that they were" Moscow-trained", adding that only five of the Central Committee's forty-four members had been to Moscow, and two of those had only been on brief visits. To describe them as "Fanatics" and the people they lead as "guerillas and bandits" was, he said, to disregard the fact that opposition to Chiang Kai Shek included the majority of China's best artists, writers, etc., etc. He stated that democracy was more prevalent in the Liberated Areas in the Civil War than ever before in China, He went on to say that the Liberal Democratic League and the K.li.T. Revolutionary Committee were convinced, as was the Chinese Communist Party, that no compromise could be made with Chiang Kai Shek's regime, He ended his article with these words "As these developments show, struggle in China is not between some sort of abstract 'communism' and a potential democracy as represented by Chiang Kai Shek, but between a small, foreign supported and corrupt dictatorship and a coalition of the main progressive forces in the country".
21
In early 1948, CHEN said he was espousing the Communist cause because he felt that it held out, not only the best hope for China, but because he had been completely won over by the broad liberal principles of the leaders, for whom the term "Communist", he averred, was a misnomer.
22.
Ever since the beginning of 1948, it was clear that Raymond WONG was becoming the Number One of the NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY and that Jack CHEN was busying himself with the furthering of contacts to give the bulletins wider circulation. His objective was to spread information in as many walks of public life as possible in the U.K., in Europe, in Canada and in the U.S.A.
123. The original intention
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