POLITICAL INFORMATION: CHINESE NEWSPAPERMEN TO VISIT JAPAN (SUPPLEMENT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400370006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 21, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
This do '
COUNTRY China
ONEIDEN7iA.L i, accordance with the
le 16 Cutober 1978 from the
Director .ral Intelligence to the
SUBJECT Political Info
ORIGIN
Nei iReview tress
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Visit Japan (Supplement)
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DATE: 25X1A6a
INFO.
DIST. March 1947
PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT
The group of ten Chinese newspapermen from Nanking, Shanghai,
Peiping, and Tientsin left for Japan on 26 February. This report supplements
a previous report on this subject, noting; changes in personnel and newspapers
represented a)
" - }^ "yY1t1+TG Y hull (1 ; - /["A", of the Pew aping Chronicle is often called
4. LU Ilei~ l a~ ) (previously re orted) is the courtesy name of LTU Keeng
( - -;
as one of the replacements despite his many pro es so KUNG published as editorial
entitled?"Questioning PQENG Usueh-p'ei 'Why We Were Rejected", which, appeared. over ,
a period of several days in his Chiu Kuo Jih Paoc. KUNG stated in his paper that he
would continue to publish the same article until he was either approved to go to
Japan or was forced to close his aper; however. he merely gained the nickname of
VK, Ta P?ao" (Cannon KUNG)o a Plao" is a term which may be translated "braggart
The Tung Ilan Jih Pao ,_Southeast Daily. has a circulation of abaiA
20,000 in Shanghai,, The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the paper is CHvEN
Kuo-fu (` ?` )~ one of the CH?ENN brothers, heads of the CC Clique, The
paper was formerly published in Iiangohowo It has been published in Shanghai since
the middle of June 1946. The publisher is HUJ Chien-ohun t
g ( ~~ )8 the edi,r,
in-ohief is TU Shao-wen ( '^ J both are CC Clique mem rs0 The paper
represents the views of the extreme right wing of the Kuomintang.
to CH IG, To rang-po ( j J representing the Hain .%an Paoaand FAIT Cheng-po
(' ~ ;A1 ), representing the Yi Shih Pao were supposedly "detained by
person bus peas" and were unable to make the trip to Tokyo, Because the Hain
Wen Pao and the Shen Pao both represent business and eoumLercial interests, it was
sus s ' that only one o them shout -be represented in the press party= the original
list published by the Minister of Information included representatives of each of
these papers4 Of the.two papers, the representative of the Shen Pao was chosen,
SUNG Yueh=lun ( I ' -' ' / ) of the Nan Jih Pao or an o `the-CC Clique
i )Z4 ~t I Tun g (see
pare, 3). was selected to replace CII ENG Ts yang-po of the Hain Yuen Pao, As it was
previously understood that there would be a vacancy and that t replacement should
be a CC Clique representative, the last minute appointment of SUNG was quietly
aocaaplished, FAN Cheng-po of the Shanghai Yi Shih Pao was replaced by NIU Jo-yang
( ' . ) of the same papero Both SU1G and t:IU are editors of little importanc
in Chinese journalistic ciroleso
2,. KUNG Te:po ( it ~- i,, f1.fi ), publisher of the Chiu Kuo Jih Pao, Nanking was not select
CLASSIFICATION COTIA,I.
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