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CHIKA:
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WITH MY MATERIAL)
DENYING THAT FRIDAY'S RIOTS IN CANTON WERE COMMUNIST-IN-
SPIRED, AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES 11 THAT CITY TODAY SAID, ACCORDING TO A REUTER HONG KONG DESPATCH, THAT THE OUTRAGE WAS ENGINEERED
BY RIGHT-WING ELEMENTS OF THE KUOMINTANG TO EMBARRASS THE GOVERNOR OF KWANG TUNG PROVINCE, DOCTOR T.. SOONG, WHOM THEY
DISLIKE.
IT WAS CLAIMED THE WHOLE AFFAIR LARGELY DEVELOPED FROM ATTEMPTS BY THE RIGHTIST "C" FACTION OF THE KUOH:!TANG IN HONG KONG TO SCORE FOR PERSONAL REASONS OFF DR. T.W. KWOK, SOUTH
CHINA FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMISSIONER, AND THE LESS RIGHTIST KUOMIN- TANG "POLITICAL SCIENCE" GROUP.
DR. KWOK, TRYING TO GET A SATISFACTORY SOLUTION TO THE KOWLOON DISPUTE, WAS ACCUSED OF NOT PRESSING CHINESE INTERESTS STRONGLY ENOUGH.
OTHER POLITICIANS, THE SOURCES DECLARED, SAW A CHANCE OF DEVELOPING THE AFFAIR AND STIRRING UP CHINESE FEELING TO THE DETRIMENT OF DOCTOR SOONG.
IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT DOCTOR SOONG HAD INSISTED NOTHING BE PRINTED IN THE CANTON PRESS CONCERNING THE AFFAIR EXCEPT HATTER PROVIDED THROUGH THE CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY UNDER HIS CENSORSHIP. REUTER END
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