Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 9, No. 11. August 21, 1946
Salient Features—"Hong Kong Letters" — Canton Date Line
Salient Features—"Hong Kong Letters"
Canton Date Line
"Although I plentifully bespatter my letters with political news, your reaction is the first I have had—so now you're for it.
"I now realise that Hong Kong is as much a part of China as Chungking or Peiping, and no assessment of the colony is possible without first considering China as a whole. The Japanese war was in reality an 'incident' for the Chinese as well; it interrupted the civil war which, back to its old peacetime activity, is bigger and better than over. The Kuomintang is the product of generations of incredibly rotten and corrupt politicians—a small gang struggling frantically to retain the horrible system of extortion, high taxation and 'squeeze,' of which they are the chief, and practically the sole beneficiaries. Their main source of revenue is the bankrupt, powerless Chinese peasantry.