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Appendix D.

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HONG KONG

In September, 1946, Raymond WONG intimated that he was going to establish an office of the New China News Agency in Hong Kong; he also adled that he would apply for a licence to receive broadcasts from Yenan.

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In October, 1946, CHILO MU, a member of the C.C.P., was officially appointed representative of the New China News Agency in Hong Kong by the headquarters of the Agency, at that time in Yenan. KUNG P'eng, his wife, is a member of the local communist-controlled Women's Association in Hong Kong.

3. The News Agency received its licence on payment of 450 dollars (Hong Kong) on 8th April, 1947. However, the first news despatches were not released until 15th May, 1947, since then the publication of bulletins has continued regularly and without break.

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The Agency was requested to pay the registration fee of 3000 dollars as the news-sheet became a newspaper, under the Printers' and Publishers' Ordinance. This was never paid, and, instead, they ceased their free circulation of the news-sheet.

5.

Apart from normal press activities, the New China News Agency's staff hawe their fingers in many pies in Hong Kong, There is no local Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong, with the result that the C.C.P. carries out all its clandestine activities, not only those directed against the K.M.T. but also those linked up with international Communist circles, through the New China News Agency, which, as already shown, is an official branch of the C.C.P, propaganda machine.

6. It is reliably reported that the New China News Agency office acts as a post-box between such Communist-dominated organisations as W.I.D.F., I.US and W.F.D.Y. and their Chinese equivalents in the Liberated ireas,

7. In addition, the New China News Agency is closely associated with organisations abroad who wish to see the Chinese Communists take control of China e.. the China Campaign Committee in the UK, and the China Aid Council in the U.S.^.

8. From the information available, it appears that all administrativa details of overseas branches are referred to Hong Kong in the first instance; if this branch is unable to provide the answers the questions are then referred to the C.C. P. Headquarters in the Liberated Areas.

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