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EL JUN 19

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 10th. April, 1919.

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With reference to Your Lordship's Con- -fidential Despatch of the 27th. January, enclosing copy of

correspondence with the Foreign Office on the subject of Pro-

-paganda work in Hongkong, I have the honour to transmit for

Your Lordship's information a copy of a Memorandum dram up

by the Propaganda Committee, which gives an account of the work they have done, and outlines a scheme which they propose

to put into operation in the immediate future.

2.

The scheme quite briefly is as follows:-

The Committee are now in touch with some sixty Vernacular

Newspapers to which news is sent daily. These papers may be

divided into three categories:-

(1). Those which publish the news supplied in full.

(2). Those which publish a considerable portion. (3). Those which publish little or none.

The weak point in the present arrmgement is that the Com- -mittee has no means of inducing a paper to publish news. It is proposed to appeal to British firms to place advertisements

in the Vernacular Press through the Committee. An Advertise- -ment Bureau has been created and a competent newspaper man

has been engaged to control this Bureau. If the Bureau can

supply the native press with advertisements there can be no

doubt that the native press will be willing to publish the

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.

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