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BRITISH IN HONG KONG ORDERLY RESTORATION EVIDENCE OF STABILITY (9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Api'il 14. Everything the British are doing in Hong Kong reflects their intention to stay a long time, says the New York Herald-Tribune's correspondent. Britons in Hong Kong generally agree that the colony will sooner or later revert to Chinese or semi-Chinese control, but they talk in terms of decades instead of a few years.
A typical British view is: "Look at the economic plight of Canton and Shanghai to see what would happen in Hong Kong if it were handed over to China.”
The correspondent adds: "The Chinese Nationalists, who are clamouring for the return of Hong Kong to China, could learn much from the firm, orderly way the British are restoring this city which the Japanese battered and looted. It is a show window of relative stability on the fringe of disordered China.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21997, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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