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王任叔 巴人 WONG YAM SHUK @ WONG YAM LAM @ WANG YIN SHU @ BAHREN.
Male, age 48 years a native of Kiangsu Province.
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Subject was until 1941 a teacher in various
Chinese venacular schools in Slaghai as wil as editor of two Chinese newspapers there.
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He left Shanghai in 1941 about three months in Hong Kong went to taught in the Nam Kiu Teachers Training
and after staying Singapore where he
School.
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On the outbreak of the Pacific War he joined Tan Ka Kee's Anti Japanese Mobilization Association, becoming Assistant Director of the Propaganda Section.
When the Japanese were advancing on Singapore
Subject with others fled to Sumatra.
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There he made his H.Q. at Medan and became a prime mover in the Anti Fascist League and the Anti Japanese Union of Overseas Chinese. In 1943 the Japanese clamped down on these organisations and again Subject fled, this time into the
There he contacted other 'Wingers'.
prominent Interior of Sumatra.
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When the Japanese capitulated, Subject returned to Medan where he began to spread Communist propaganda. It is also alleged that he was given the job of reforming the Communist arty in Medan. His written articles and statements became anti Imperialist and anti Dutch. He was a leading con- tributor to the Democratic Party Daily News which was strongly left wing, anti Dutch and anti British.
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In 1946 he also became lecturer on Communist policy at a Communist Training School at Medan known as the Youth Freedom Training Institute.
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In 1947 Subject made a short trip to Singapore and after he returned to Indonesia he was arrested by the Dutch at Pematang Siantar on 6.8.47 for allegedly anti Dutch activities.
According to a statement made to Special Branch his arrest was caused by K.M.T. elements who were in conflect with the Chinese Democratic League with which Subject allies
himself.
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Subject was later released by the Dutch on his ng an agreement to leave Sumatra and on 27.9.47 he arrived in Hong Kong.
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Seen by Special Branch he was instructed as to the manner in which persons granted asylum in Hong Kong were expected to behave. He claimed as his friends here several 'Leftist 'writers, giving their names.
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Copies of reports on WONG YA SHUK dealing with his history up to the time of his arrival in Hong Kong on 27.9.48 at
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history, up to the time) and (3).
Subject want to live at No. 97, 1st fl., San Hui, Castle Peak, and gave his correspondence address as care of the Tat Tak Institute,
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He was reported later as
being in ill health,
in poor financial circumstances and receiving a monthly allowance of $100.00 from the Life Publishing Company, a Leftist concern. He also wrote and published a book called 'Indonèsia Strug le
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