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Ground (where the lower classes assemble), near the Post Office, the central market, and at prominent places in Shaukiwan, Yau mati, Hunghom, &c. These posters were sometimes issued in the name of an imaginary association called “The Peace and Order Preservation Society," and sometimes without any names at all.
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59. But the best medium of propaganda has been the news- paper. At the beginning of July, as the only Chinese paper then publishing was inable or unwilling to print our news, we created our own newspaper. This was the Kung Sheung Yat Po (The Industrial and Commercial Daily News), which was started largely through the instrumentality of Mr. H. K. Hung, a local solicitor, who got one of the oldest and ablest Chinese editors to write the leading articles. This editor, Mr. Pun Wai-chau, unfortunately, has since died. Mr. Hung also secured the help of two other Chinese as publisher and chief editor respectively -men who had been expelled from the Kuomitang on account of the moderation of their views. Though at first the "Kung Sheung was only a small single sheet, less than half the size of the large double sheet of the " Wah Kiu Yat Po," it has done good from the very day of its issue. The publication of a paper independent and fearless of Bolshevism, which daily attacked those doctrines, inspired a little courage in the "Wah Kiu." The other newspapers which had suspended publication also recom- menced with a daily issue of one sheet. To-day, because of the example of the "Kung Sheung," all the Chinese newspapers are anti-Red, but we are carefully watching at least two of them to see that they are not converted by Russian money. This shows that the rapid spread of feeling which can so easily be induced in a mob, can also be caused in the daily journals which affect and reflect the mob psychology.
60. The men who launched and are running the "Kung Sheung Yat Po" deserve every credit. They have been marked out for dire punishment by the Canton "Reds.'
Reds." There is little doubt that the bomb outrage in a tramcar near the Central Market was directed against the two Kuomintang
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renegades." The bomb exploded in the car they were using at the stopping place where they almost invariably alighted. By the merest chance they intended to get off the car one section later, and so had not descended to the lower stage of the tramcar where the bomb was placed.
61. We must all agree that there is great need for continued propaganda. Our enemy has been, and will be, unceasing in his attacks upon us, and his attempts to buy over some of our Chinese newspapers. We must keep on educating the public, and see that our case continues to be presented to them in the manner we want, whether we have actual civil disturbance at the time or not. With this object Mr. Chow Shou-son and I, with other Chinese merchants, have recently turned the "Kung Sheung Yat Po" into a permanent newspaper, and are running it at a considerable loss, even with the Government grant of $500 a month, as a large number of copies have been sent abroad gratis.
62. English propaganda work is, I understand, being done by Captain A. McClay, of the South China Publicity Bureau.
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