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Dear Shaw,
OKYO
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
August 25th, 1967.
Airash M.
TC
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You wrote to Anthony Elliott (who is on leave and will not be back until 29th August) on 17th August (16725/35/67) about the Japanese press and Hong Kong. I can assure you that the Information Services are well aware of the problem posed by the Japanese press here, the Acting Director, Stevenson, has told me very frankly that he does not think his Department is close enough to the Japanese correspondents and he is hoping to remedy this. One of the problems is that none of them speak English and they are not easy people to get close to. This,
however, is no excuse and we have got to devise methods to try and win their confidence.
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It is an interesting commentary on the situation here that when Fei Yi-min gave a press conference here the other acy it was attended by 15 reporters, 7 of whom were Japanese, joovering, as far as I can see, almost every Japanese newspaper that I have heard of as well as their radio. Clearly the Communists here were confident that they would get favourable coverage from the group of Japanese.
Yours ever,
lichael Wilfr
(K.M. WIjford)
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T.R. Shaw, Esq., C.M.G., British Embassy,
TOKYO.
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