CO129-617-5 Deportation orders against Yam Shuk Wong- Kin Tse- Yui Chung- Fong Siu- Madame Lui Sze... 18-4-1947 - 25-2-1949 — Page 21

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(Extract from. 3.B. 88/47 (3).)

Defence Security Office.

18th September 1947.

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Wong's next appearance was in Malaya before the war when he was noted as being associated with the communists. In 1941 ae was still in Singapor e where in 1942 he became a member of the Anti-Enemy Mobilization Committee forme by Tan Kah Kee. Jhen the Japanese were advancing down the leninsular, WONG apparently decided to seek fresh. fields and ac companiet by several fellow Committee members he fled with HU YIT TGE to Sumatra (4.2.42.)

In Jumatra 70°G took up station at Mean and was a prime mover in the Anti-Fascist League and the Anti-Japanese Union of Overseas Chinese, but in September 1943 the Japanese clamped down on these associations and many of the members were arrested. WONG, with his customary dexterity, esc pe into the interior. Sometime in th following year he,- together with other prominent communists, was contacte in Sarastagi by HT VIT 731 who was later to become hear of the Southern (lalayan) Branch Staff of the Democratic Leagu covering Sumatra. Following the capitulation, WCNG promptly reappeared in Kean where he exploited the prevailing chaotic conditions to spread communist propaganda.

It was then decided that U IT T and LAU BOSTAN should go to bingapore to re-open contact with the M.C.F. SHAC JHUNG HA and VORG were to reorganize the C..., in Megan. WONG's statements and articles formerly anti-Japanese and anti-Fascist in tone Tafually switched over to anti-Imperialist and particularly anti-Dutch. Simultaneously the Anti-Fascist League underwent a metamorphosis and emerged as a branch of the Chinese Democratic League, clostly linked with the Republican movement and the Youth Feleration. The Democratic League paper "Democratic Daily News" was strongly left wing, anti-Dutch an anti-British. WONG Yam- s.uk, a journalist of some ability was a learing contributor and a typical article advocate, the unification of all Indonesian workers into one tra union in order to strengther Indonesia's stru-le against imperialis.

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