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Enclosure 1.
Report by the Secretary to the War
Propaganda Committee.
Distribution on behalf of Shanghai.
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The Shanghai Committee receive funds from home, I am told that the monthly subvention is $7,000. When Mr. Leslie came down here to confer with our Committee I found that the
Shanghai Committee was spending a sum of about $2,000 a month in postage alone. I obtained permission from His Excellency to post all such literature here and write off the cost of
the stampa.
The new system came into force on the 24th. April, and from that date up to to-day we have stamped, chopped and sorted, 251,807 papers, the total face value of stamps affixed has been $14,888.36. These papers are sent all over China, and,
as you saw, the labour of stamping, chopping and sorting is
very great. Mr. Perpetuo and eight selected postmen do this
work, and on many occasions they have had to work until 8 or
10 p.m.
The work was so great that I wrote to Mr. Picard Destelan and
asked him if he as an Ally would permit me to post all Allied Propaganda Literature unstamped, and chopped "postage paid",
Mr. Destelan has been good enough to grant me this privilege
and from the lat. of next month we shall be relieved of the
work of stamping this mass of papers.
Distribution in Hong Kọng.
Our new working arrangement with Shanghai came into force on
the 24th. April and since that date I have distributed in
Hong Kong, 158, 100 copies of illustrated papers, and 2,300
pamphlets. We have arranged a very complete system of propa-
ganda in all schools in Hong Kong. The Illustrated papers
form the basis of lectures and a small book of stories, of
which I send a copy has been prepared and distributed to all
schools.
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