CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927 — Page 31

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(Extract from the Wa Kiu Yat Po, Hong Kong, 21st May, 1927)

Officers sent by the Municipal Kuomintang Department

to assist the management of the Man Kwok Yat Po.

(From our own correspondent rui)

Before

The Man Kwok Yat Po and Kwok Man San Man in Canton

are both propaganda organisations of the Kuomintang. the former was under the supervision of the Central Kuomintang Department and the latter under the control of the Provincial Kuomintang, and both of them were managed by Kam Nai Kwong. On the purification of the Kuomintang most of the leading editors of the Kwok Man San Man fled away, and no responsible men were left to continue its publication. Therefore Tsang Yeung Po, acting Director of the General Political Department, sent some men to take on the management. The staff of the Man Kwok Yat Po was wholly loyal to the Kuomintang, but at that time the Central Kuomintang had become defunct and therefore Chan Fu Muk went personally on the same day to take charge

of it.

Of late we learn that the Municipal Kuomintang has a desire to establish a propaganda organisation of their own in the City, but for lack of funds, this cannot be easily promoted. Some days ago they made the suggestion that the two papers both belonged to the Kuomintang for purposes of propaganda, and thereupon they had a discussion with a certain important man with a view to the transfer- ence of the Man Kwok Yat Po to the control of the Muni- cipal Kuomintang Department. The important man considered it expedient to transfer to them the Kwok Man San Man

(Man Kwok Yat Po?) which is under the management of the