Peking telegram No. 522 to Foreign Office
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4. Hong Kong authorities have attempted to limit the efforts of the cultural revolution in Hong Kong. They have carried out military and police exercises hostile to China. They have prevented the carrying of Mao quotations and imprisoned and beaten people who carried them. All attempts to prevent Hong Kong people from studying Mao will fail.
Chiang
5. Not only have the Hong Kong British authorities failed to apologise or immediately accept all the serious demands put forward in our Government statement but on the contrary they have mobilised troops and police, colluded with United States agents and have prepared to carry out even larger scale persecutions. They are using policies of carrot and stick, intimidation and deception, splitting and subversion to suppress the just struggle of our compatriots. They have even openly said that China is occupied with the cultural revolution and has no time to pay attention to the struggle of her compatriots. They have miscalculated. "You must frankly accept the blame before the whole of Chinese residents in Hong Kong and come clean, otherwise you must bear all the serious consequences".
6.
Report says that over last three days one million people
have demonstrated outside British office.
Mr. Hopson
FO/CO/WH DISTRIBUTION
Far Eastern Dept.
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