European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shacks cling to a Hillside crowned by Mong Kong apartment building. Ii though Many new apartment i Hove been built housing is still a problem. An estimated 140,000 persons live on the Unks crowded into Crown Colony s Scenic Harbor. Hong the is crowding in on Hon Kong but the mood of the City do lies the  a native what will happen in 1197 when the British lease expires on the new territories the Vul Mainland portion of the Colony and he shrugs his shoulders and smiles. Tomorrow will take care of itself he says with stoic Grace. And indeed for is years of Hon Kong s existence on the rim of communist China tomorrow has taken cure of  this Brief life spun of the peking regime Hong Kong has prospered mightily. The Colony which is concentrated on Hong Kong Island Kowloon and the new territories is crowded with soar ing new apartments and hotels. The steel and Concrete skeletons of buildings under construction contribute a prosperous vitality to the City rugged mountainous Skyline. Ships from afar haul the merchandise of the world to and from the magnificent and chaotic  throng to this 400 Square Miles of capitalist real estate to Hun for bargains in what merchants boast is the world s freest  is Hong Kong Crown jewel of the Orient surging with life a City of strange colors exotic doors and spleen Dio diversions which transfused its Visio Page 131 the stari and stripes tors with a rare stimulating  name Hong Kong Hai in lure in itself for it Means frag streams or fragrant Harbor. I yet lurking behind this exciting a intoxicating scene is the knowledge w the chinese communists can take on the Colony any Lime they want to the fact that the British lease on new territories will expire in 31 ifs i Why do the chinese permit the Julu operate ii virtual capitalist a Tom on their shores honk Kong businessmen w Colony has been permitted 113 freed because it is an economic asset to communists who use the great butt As their windows on the  has been estimated that 40 a of the convertible foreign Curran Learned by Tho  Chine comes by Hung Kong. Moke than $250 million annular Learned in visible foreign to through the Colony. An addllicil$200,000 is received from overseas emf Tancos through peking Banks la Colony and from movies and bulb a operated by the communists in Colony. 1 so the theory goes As Long Asb Kong remains a principal source of a Rency for the communists the com will be allowed to pursue life so Gas for the future after the inf saturday Ocif