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Your Administration in Kwangtung has nothing to fear

" and democracy has everything to gain from a newspaper not

" under the control of any party.

I am venturing to write this letter entirely

" in a private capacity and have not informed any government

11 agencies that I am doing so. I do not know their attitud e

" to the present ban on the Wah Kij Yat Po, but I do know that

* there is a general desire that the press should be free from

" political control.

Please do not trouble to answer this. I

" know you will do what you can.

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Yours sincerely,

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(sd.) Ronald Hong Kong

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BISHOP OF HONG KONG. 11

Meantime, the press campaign continued.

26.

Towards the end of May, one Li Tai Chiu, Chief Representa-

tive of the Kuomintang Party in Hong Kong and Macau, made an

approach to Your Petitioner to effect that the party was desirous

of taking over control of the paper and that if such control was

not given, Your Petitioner's name would appear in the List of

Traitors intended to be published in the then very near future.

Your Petitioner's refusal to hand over control led to Li Tai Chiu

going up to Canton to "report" Your Petitioner to Field Head-

quarters and on the 6th June, 1946, when General Chang Fa Kwei

was away in Nanking, the Second List of Traitors was published

and Your Petitioner's name appeared as the 98th of a total of

100.

27. On the following day, there appeared in Chang Hoo-sang's

newspaper (the National Times) a leading article calling upon

the local Chinese to help the Chinese Government by capturing

Your Petitioner alive and by smashing up the Wah Kiu Yat Po

The immediate reaction to this article was the order of His

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