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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
PRESS RELATIONS OFFICE
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6 E, GLOUCESTER arcade
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Date: 24th December, 1946.
Ref: PRO/616/3.
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF HONGKONG PRESS REPORTS AND COMMENTS.
December 8 to 14, 1946.
1. Chief Internal Events Reported.
The Chinese press continued to give great prominence to the Shumchun border incident which occurred the previous weck. The "National Times" went to great lengths to report and comment on the activities of the so-called "Backing-up Committee'. The paper also expressed the opinion that the matter had not been settled merely because of the official expla- nation made by the British military authorities. The paper also alleged that the Press Relations Office translators had provided the press with incorrect translations and had added something to the English text. (The allegation, which was quite untrue, was not supported by any other Chinese newspapers.) Generally speaking, the Chinese press had recovered from its original bysteria over the incident and confined itself to more sober reporting of the official explanations and the activities of the Po On District and Backing-up Associations.
The Chinese press waxed enthusiastic over the official visit of the British Trade Mission and reported its daily public functions in great detail.
The "Kung Sheung Daily News reported that the Hongkong Hawkers Association had made an appeal against police raids on hawkers and against the regulation which permits of the confiscation of hawkers' merchandise without recourse to the courts. The "Wah Kiu Yat Po" reported that the New Territorics farmers were preparing a petition to the Governor for the repeal of the control on vegetables.
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2. Comments on Internal Events.
Principal editorial comment in the vernacular press centred around the British Trade Mission. All the papers warmly welcomed the Mission and its purpose. The Sing Tao Jih Pao" said it hoped that when the fission returned to England it would propose that the British-China trade policy be founded on the principles of equality and reciprocity, and that it should aim at the industrialisation of China and it should
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