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THE PRESS

pool, of about half-a-dozen photographers, covered those events where lack of space and other considera- tions made it impossible for all photographers to be present. The pictures taken by the pool were made freely available to all newspapers. These and other arrangements proved highly satisfactory and the Royal Visit to Hong Kong received maximum publicity in both the Colony's own newspapers and the overseas press.

News Agencies and Foreign Correspondents

Four great international news agencies maintain permanent correspondents in Hong Kong and sell their news services to the local newspapers. They are the Associated Press of America, Agence-France Presse, Reuter, in association with the Australian Associated Press, and United Press. The independent Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance, the New China News Agency, the official agency of the Chinese People's Government, and the Central News Agency of Nationalist China also maintain offices in Hong Kong. Since the begin- ning of 1952 two Japanese agencies, Kyodo and Jiji Press, have had correspondents in the Colony. The resident foreign correspondents corps numbers about 15 persons. In addition to the news agency corres- pondents, The Times, New York Times, the Time and Life magazine organization and various other foreign publishing houses have permanent representatives in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is a popular centre for visiting corres- pondents and more than one hundred passed through the Colony in 1952. Distinguished press visitors, other than correspondents, included Mr. Henry R. Luce, publisher of Time, Life and associated Magazines and Mr. Gardner Cowles, publisher of Look magazine.

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