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The Kuomintang huo always put the oduction of Chinose

youth Pito politzeul tenein which of course are those of its

founder Dr. Jun Yat Don, in the forefront of its progrellas of

propaganda. it is cutimated that in tong Long the party ans

some thirty-five private schools under its influenco. in ell

private schools it endeavours to hold ceremonies on Jhinese

national oеCHBLONE, at which there is a ritu::l observance

towards the picture of Dr. Sun, and "cok unity" shouting of

Party "alogans". drunts-in-ald fron arty funds are said to

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be promised to schools which show themselves to be very umenable

to control, but it is not known if any such grants have actually

yet been paid. Another phase of its efforts to educate Chinese

youth, appears in the organisation known as the "arce eoples

Principles Youth Corps", which has a Hong Kong branch. this

Youth Corps is believed to train its members chiefly in the work

of collecting intelligence of a political nature and or petty

spying on opponents of the Party, or on persona who do not show.

any perticular readiness to be brought into the fold..

12. The arty sins at complete control of the vernacular

press in Hong Kong and has attained this for all practical pur-

poses except in the case of a few unimportant nowspapero.

methods in achieving control are illustrated in the cane of the

Can Kiu Yat Po, the Chinese daily with the largest circulation.

By accusations of collaboration against the person who had benn

editor during the Japanese occupation, and by a process which

mounted to systematic blackmail, it got its men into the

management and staff of this paper, which has lost its tradi-

tional independent point of view and now reflects the views of

the Kuomintang.

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The nupport of Labour is valuable to any Chinase

political party because of the lever thereby obtained, to imple-

Bent political ends, in the shape of the general strike.

nothod is to support individual unious in disputes as to wincen

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