overseas Chinese in the Colony of their democratic rights, arbitrarily searching their premises and closing down Tat Tak College. Both the left wing press in Hong Kong and the Daily Worker in London carried reports about the Lin Kun raid and the closing of Tat Tak and adopted an air of injured innocence at these unjust and repressive acts.
On 6th June, the day Mr. Alexander arrived in Hong Kong, the C.C.P. radio broadcast a scathing denunciation of the British and Hong Kong Governments' oppression of the Chinese people. Quoting another statement by Marshal Li Chai-sum, it was alleged that a number of security ordinances introduced in Hong Kong would turn the Colony into a police state. It is clear from a captured document that the Communist in Hong Kong are seriously pertubed by the Societies Ordinance and the various left wing groups, headed by the K.M.T. Revolutionary Committee, addressed a memorandum to the Hong Kong Government on the 22nd June deploring the Ordinance as being harmful to friendship with China.
The recent searching of General Fang Fang's residence was the subject of protests in the left wing press and by Chiao Mu who, in a letter addressed to the Governor, contrasted the search with the protection afforded to foreigners in the liberated areas of China. On 22nd June the Peking radio broadcast its strongest attack on Hong Kong to date, concerning itself mainly with the closing of Tat Tak College, the Societies Ordinance and the searching of Fang Fang's residence. The broadcast concluded by asking "What is the purpose of the British Authorities in turning Hong Kong into a city of terror?".
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