CCP AUTHORITIES PERMIT NONPARTY PRESS COVERAGE BUT CENSOR KOREAN WAR NEWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350577-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 577
• Publication Date: October 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED'
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Sociological, Political - Press, radio
Daily newspapers
Hong Kong
18 Aug - 21 Sep 1950
CCP AUTHORITIES PERMIT NONPART'Y' PRESS COVERAGE
BUT CENSOR KOREAN WAR NEWS
The Canton CC.P Committee has just issued a report covering the past 10
months, which states that nonparty newspapers in Hong Kong have correctly des-
cribed affairs in Canton. Heretofore, Communist officials have called nonparty
newspapers in Hong Kong "reactionary," averring that all their pertinent news
was fabricated.
Local political observers say that the existence of nonparty newspapers in
Hong Kong helps to point up a good number of deviations from policy be cadres.
After the official Nan-fang Jih-pao first published on 20 September 1950
the news of US landings at Inch'on, the Canton authorities banned such news
for 4 days. People coming to Canton from Hong Kong and Macao are besieged by
requests for Korea war news. Plain-clothesmen are sent to various public places
and arrest those who discuss news they have heard over the radio. About 20 per-
sons have been arrested and will be,punished for spreading rumors.
-...REFUTES FOREIGN BROADCASTS -- Hong Kong Hein-sheng Wan-pao, 18 Aug 50
Informed quarters state that the South China Sub-Bureau is stepping. its
"prophylaxis" against "Voice of America" and "Voice of Free China" propaganda.
Three talented monitors have been appointed for continuous listening and when
any item concerning Kwangtung or Canto=is picked up it is at once forwarded to
the editors of Nan-fang ,Jih-pao, The paper sends out reporters who ascertain
the facts and give a more formal account in the paper, to allay fears among the
people. Such items include; (1) stories of arrests in Canton of correspondents
of Hong Kong non-Communist papers; (2) eliminating KMT guerrillas; (3) spring
famine and floods; (4) KMT agents throwing bombs at Kwangtung government bui13-
ings,
CONFIDENTIAL,
DISTRIBUTION
DATE DIST. , Oct 1950
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
CDNFIDE'r'TIAL
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CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
Dwellers in downtown Canton were already without hope of a quiet life, when
the government, to combat other broadcasts, set up loudspeakers at all inter-
vals; but finding this inadequate, the gove:-iment made the programs last from
early morning till late at night. The people find this loud noise insufferable.
Old residents passing such places, put their hands over their ears.
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