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FOREIGN OFFICE TO PEKING
IMMEDIATE
TELNO 385
23 MAY 1967 (F)
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ADDRESSED TO PEKING TELEGRAM NO 385 OF 23 MAY REPEATED FOR
INFORMATION TO HONG KONG WASHINGTON AND POLAD SINGAPORE.
HONG KONG.
THE CHINESE ACTING CHARGE D'AFFAIRES CALLED AT HIS OWN REQUEST
AT 11 AM. ON 23 MAY TO MAKE AN ORAL DEMARCHE ABOUT HONG KONG.
HE WAS SEEN BY MR RODGERS.
2.
THE CHARGE REFERRED TO HIS MEETING ON 19 MAY WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND SAID THAT HE HAD NOT ON THAT OCCASION HAD
AN OPPORTUNITY TO REFUTE MR BROWN'S QUOTE SHAMEFUL IMPERIALIST LANGUAGE UNQUOTE. IN ADDITION MR BROWN HAD ON 22 MAY (PRESUMABLY ON BBC PANORAMA) QUOTE VICIOUSLY ATTACKED THE CHINESE PEOPLE UNQUOTE. HE SAID THAT LARGE SCALE QUOTE FASCIST ATROCITIES UNQUOTE
IN HONG KONG WERE THE DIRECT RESULT OF COLLUSION WITH U.S.
AND CHIANG CLIQUE AND REFERRED TO THE QUOTE BEATING UP AND
ARRESTING OF CHINESE COMPATRIOTS UNQUOTE AND QUOTE SANGUINARY
SUPPRESSION UNQUOTE. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT RESOLUTELY BACKED THE
JUST ACTION OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG AND STOOD BEHIND THEM.
3. THE CHARGE THEN SAID THAT H.M.G. HAD NOT ONLY
FAILED TO REPLY TO THE FIVE CHINESE DEMANDS BUT HAD ALLOWED THE
SITUATION TO GO FROM BAD TO WORSE. HE DEMANDED THAT:
(A) PERSECUTION IN HONG KONG SHOULD CEASE:
(B) H.M.G. SHOULD IMMEDIATELY ACCEPT THE FIVE QUOTE SOLEMN
AND JUST UNQUOTE CHINESE DEMANDS.
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(C) H.M.G. SHOULD MAKE AN IMMEDIATE REPLY.
HE CONCLUDED BY SAYING THAT CHINA WAS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE
THE STRUGGLE. H.M.G. WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE SERIOUS
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