Peking telegram No. 479 to Foreign Office
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lodges the most urgent and strongest protest with the British Government against these atrocities. The sanguinary atrocitie wholly perpetrated by the British Authorities in Hong Kong show they mortally fear and bitterly hate China's great proletarian cultural revolution. This great revolutionary movement which is without parallel in history has dealt a telling blow to imperialism modern revisionism and world reaction, completely shattered their dream of counter-revolutionary capitalist restoration in China and greatly encouraged and impelled the liberation struggles of the oppressed peopes and oppressed nations of the whole world.
In particular, this great revolutionary movement has caused our Chinese co-patriots in Hong Kong to love still more ardently the thought of Mao Tse-Tung, and they are vigorously unfolding the movement of creative study and application of Chairman Mao's works. Armed with the ever victorious thought of Mao Tse-Tung, the masses of our patriotic compatriots are more militant than ever in fighting imperialism. Frightened out of their wits by this, the British Authorities in Hong Kong vainly attempted by violent suppression to restrict the influence of Mao Tse-Tung's thought and to maintain their control, and thus committed the barbarous Fascist atrocities. The Chinese Government must sternly warn the British Government that in so doing you have completely miscalculated and misjudged your opponent. Succeeding to the glorious tradition of anti imperialist struggle of over a century, the Chinese workers and residents in Hong Kong armed with Mao Tse-Tung's thought are neither to be cowed nor crushed. Holding high the great Red Banner of Mao Tse-Tung's thought, they are resolved [?word omitted] no sacrifice and are surmounting every difficulty to win victory in this struggle against the atrocities committed by the British Authorities in Hong Kong.
Heroic, staunch and unyielding, they have greatly developed the glorious anti imperialist and patriotic tradition and are indeed fine sons and daughters of the Chinese Nation. The British Authorities in Hong Kong are blustering and baring their fangs, but as Chairman Mao, the great leader of the Chinese people, has pointed out, "in the final analysis, their persecution of the revolutionary people only serves to accelerate the people's revolutions on a broader and more intense scale". In sanguinary suppressing Chinese residents, the British Authorities in Hong Kong can only end up like one "lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own feet"."
Mr. Hopson
Sent 0210 15 May
Recd 05452 15 May
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