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The Kuomintang has always put the education of Chinese

youth in its political tenets, which of course are those of its

founder Dr. Sun Yat Sen, in the forefront of its programme of

propaganda. It is estimated that in Hong Kong the party has

some thirty-five private schools under its influence. In all

private schools it endeavours to hold ceremonies on Chinese

national occasions, at which there is a ritual observance

towards the picture of Dr. Sun, and "community" shouting of

Party "slogans". Grants-in-aid from Party funds are said to

be promised to schools which show themselves to be very amenable

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 "Three Peoples

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 of petty

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

any particular readiness to be brought into the fold..

12. The Party aims 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 newspapers. Its

methods in achieving control are illustrated in the case of the

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

By accusations of collaboration against the person who had been

editor during the Japanese occupation, and by a process which

amounted 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

The support of Labour is valuable to any Chinese

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

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

method is to support individual unions in disputes as to wages