FEARS OF ATTACK ON HONG KONG EXAGGERATED
(11 a.m.) CANBERRA. May 21. Replying to Mr. T. White, Liberal, who asked whether Australia was doing anything to assist Hong Kong, the Prime Minister, Mr.' J. B. Chifley, said in the House of Representatives that Australia had been asked to divert shipping normally used for immigration to evacuate soldiers’ wives from Hong Kong to Malaya. He added that certain assistance was being given to Hong Kong by the British Government but that, in some cases, the fears concerning a possible attack on Hong Kong were exaggerated. There had been no request to make the new aircraft-carrier Sydney available.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22952, 21 May 1949, Page 5
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