NEWS FROM CHINA
Sir.—ln the news paragraphs this morning you print an item from Hong Kong. Recent visitors to Hong Kong have described the city as a place of terrible contrasts, where children still beg for food, where the Chinese are huddled together in substandard houses and where there are two'worlds, one for the rich and one for the poor. This is very different from the mainland, where, in spite of a hostile press in our country, the people are happy and doing very well. I have offered’“The Press” from time to time accounts of these conditions written bv Rewi Alley, but you prefer to use the Hong Kong reports. Rewi says in his last letter: i“The poor dears (New Zealanders), when will they start being realistic?” —Yours, etc.. P.J.A. March 7. 1956. [We fail to see the relevance of this letter to the report of the Chinese Communist Government’s systematic encouragement of children to denounce their “counter-revo-lutionary” parents. The correspondent presumably thinks this commonplace of Communist gov ernment technique needs neither explanation, excuse, nor apology. -Jd., "The Press.”] "
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27912, 8 March 1956, Page 3
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