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EXTORTION HOAX BARE
BY LETTERS FROM CHIN

gy establishing the facts to expose

= Sroups of degenerate Chiang

et, using their knowledge of

_ and villages where they form.

\, Shrieked the big lie of “Red

By BERT WHYTE

The U.S. State Department, working in co-
operation with agents of the Kuomintang in the U.S.

, and Canada, is promoting the current spate of daily

newspaper headline stories of alleged “‘Red extor-

» tions’ from Chinese citizens in these countries. Pur-
* pose of the campaign is to have Ottawa and Wash-
~. ington end all direct and indirect trade with People’s
; China; whip up anti-Chinese hysteria as part of a

psychological preparation of the American and Can-
adian peoples for possible ex-
tension of ‘tthe Korean war
against China; and isolate Chin-
ese citizens in the U.S. and
‘(Canada from ‘their ‘homeland.
Assisting this campaign are

Kai-shek extortionists, dregs of
the old Chiang regime who fled
before the advance of the Peo-
ple’s Liberation Army and settl-
ed in Hong Kong where they
have developed a lucrative rack-

‘Chinese families in the towns

erly lived to prey on unsuspect-
ing relatives in ‘Canada and the
United States.

For two weeks I have been

the false, malicious anti-China
stories which have been featur-
ed in the Vanecuver Sun, Van-
couver Province and Vancouver
News-Herald — stories which

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Subs rollinas
Xmas nears

extortion plots” and “unprece-
dented flow of Canadian money
to Red China.” Now I challenge
these daily papers ito publish
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See RACKETEERS

Pt.Grey, Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale
vote keeps NPA clique in power.

A heavy turnout of voters in
West ‘Point Grey, Shaughnessy
and Kerrisdale helped ‘to defeat
the “sensible Sundays” plebis-
cite and return a Non-Partisan
Association administration for
another year in civic elections
Wednesday this week.

Re-elected to city counci! were
Anna Sprott, Halford Wilson
and R. K. Gervin. Only break
in NPA ranks was the defeat
of Earl Adams on his initial
aldermanic try. Fourth alder-
Man, elected with 19,437 votes,
Was Tory ex-mayor Jonathan

- Cornett, running as an inde- -

endent.

eacreadents supported by ae
Pacific Tribune got these votes:
Effie Jones, 6,679; Alex eyes
4.856; Florence Dorland, eee
Independent R. J. Casson, pee
split with the NPA a mon
ago, polled 8,093 votes.

NPA school board a attloee
captured all four’ seats ia
votes ranging from 29,800 a
40,000. In fifth place on Lacy
first bid for office aE e
Joseph SBlumes, indepen ent,
with 22,111. Following ve
the three other nl Pea ‘
supported by the Pacific Tr

bune finished in this order:
Viola Bianco, 16,265; Elgin Ruda-
dell, 15,401; David Rutka, 6,467.

NPA candidates won the three
parks board seats. Independent
Maurice Rush polled 7,754 votes.

The plebiscite on Sunday
sports was defeated, 24,813. to
31,091. The public works bylaw
passed, 35,974 to. 11,107. Also
‘passed was the franchise pleb-
iscite, which will add some
60,000 more voters to the list
next year. The vote was 38,831
to 16,579.

Threat ‘of an upset by inde-
pendent candidates spurred the

Vancouver press workers
turned in 37 subs and renewals
and scold 28 bundles of 25 copies
of the Pacific Tribune this week.
Provincial points turned in 51
subs, so the grand total bounced
up again to

Non-Partisan machine into in-
tensive activity in the final days
of the campaign. A rash of
expensive newspaper advertise-
ments appeared and Strong ef-
forts were made 'to line up the
church vote’ in opposition to

How about sending a sub to a
sensible Sundays.

friend for Christmas? Jt makes
a present that will be appreciated
throughout the vear 1952. Turn
to page 2 and fill out the form.
Now that Vancouver elections
are over we hope PT supporters
will do everything this coming
week to pick up renewals and
sign up new readers. Every
reader gained is a friend gained
for the progressive mcvement.

The NPA apparatus for get-
ting out their vote worked Over-
time Wednesday and proved
effective. City officials announc-
ed that unofficial figures show-
ed 41 percent of the eligible
voters went to the polls in this
election, highest ever for a hon-
mayoral year in this city.

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