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Thousand of copier of a specimen issue of a newspaper containing provocative articles with a strong right wing bias have been cent over to this country for.possible distribution among members of the Chipoce community. These rapere were sent on the delegates' bohalf by the GLS, who hay / mowledge of their contents nor Pang's and Chan's motiven. The reaction to this newspaper has so far been very poor although than nieced no opportunity to criticize the Government's News Digest, thus honing to justify the need for this paper. In Birmingham two of our inportant contacts had privately mentioned to Chan and Pang in our presence that the newspaper had too strong a right-wing flavour to be acceptable either to the Chinese community at large or the restaurant ommoro in particular, for fear of upsetting some of their employees who may have sympathics for communism and China. As a result of this ofvice, and our previous warning that the distribution of this newspaper would render the tack of the delegation extremely difficult, Pang and Chan have refrained from going ahead with their original plan for the time being. An added reason is that they are touring the provinces, where they do not seem to have enough contacts or backing from their own relatives and friends, mainly because the pepple in the provincial tomme kad emigrated from Sai Hung and Sha Tau Kok, or are non-NT Sze Yan macidenta. Horever, it is most likely that when they return to Lonion they will start collecting subscriptions. This attitude is not chaved by Cheung Yan Lung who has been doing his best to disuade Pang and Chan
coth out procs of conflict and dissent. Needless to say Cheung in ontiene to Associat. himself from a scheme which can only bring him
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The second part of Pang's and Chan's scheme is to inform people in Britain that they, in the name of the leung Yeo kuk, propose to' cet un an office in Kowloon on their return in order to assist the Chinese in Aritain and their families in Hong Kong in solving their problema, such as those relating to applications for travel document. rarriage certificates, the purchase of land, etc. For this they will ag: a fee of 22 a year if anyone wishes to retain them as agents. Additional fees would be charged for actual services rendered. Bang ond Chan and hoping to obtain support from some 30,000 Chinese people and haye very irresponsibly discredited the Government on many occasions in the messence of restaurant owners and workers. The justification for their proposed service bureau is that the Government is corrupt, inefficient and slow and that civil servants are often discourteous. On our part we have successfully counteracted what they have said without wportting their feelings. In our opinion, this scheme is doomed to failure. This view is chared by Cheung Yan Lung. The moment they start collecting fees the communists (who are watching the delegation very closely) will almost certainly launch a propaganda attack on / as well 30 oz Government. The effort will inevitably malte an extremely bod impression on the Chinese community, some of whom already doubts (when Lai and his team toured the provinces) as to the intentions of the delegates. These suspicions would be more than confirmed. doubts as to Pang's and Chan's ability and inclination in establimbing
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