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Reference: C/13/372
Page No. 1 of 15 Pages, Copy No.30H of 30 Copies.
Special Branch,
Hong Kong Police.
Date: 21st November, 1968.
Chinese Communist Press Machine in Hong Kong
Its Scope and Its Impact
Introduction
Propaganda is regarded as a vital weapon by
communist movements all over the world; Hong Kong
communists are no exception to this rule. Communist
propaganda locally extends through a multitude of fields
including newspapers, news agencies, periodicals,
publications of various types, films, theatrical
groups, radio broadcasts (from Macau and China)
television (from China) and last, but by no means least,
the spoken word. The communists regard the press machine
as their main propaganda weapon and one which consistently
reaches a larger section of the population than any other
media. This paper, therefore, examines the type of
material the communist newspapers disseminate, the people
who read them and the impact they have, and are likely
to have, on the population of the Colony.
Background to Communist Press
2.
Little information is available on the extent
of communist representation in the local press field before
World War II. Almost immediately after the Japanese
surrender in 1945, however, an office of the New China
News Agency (N.C.N.A.) was established here, staffed by
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