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(c) The continued display of posters and newspapers
containing inflammatory material, on much the same scale, by a number of concerns under Communist control. A new feature has been the increased militancy displayed by Communists, on a number of occasions, when private citizens have attempted to remove or interfere with posters.
(a) The continued absenteeism, though on a much
reduced scale, of workers in Government Depart- ments and private companies where action was taken last week to remove posters. (The suspension of all absentees by Government and the companies affected, has resulted in a flood of applications for re-employment.) The Star Ferry was able to resume a limited service on the 10th June. The reopening of the Taikoo Dockyard on 14 June passed off without incident and the Company is now operating at virtually full strength apart from the 168 workers whom it does not intend to recall for duty.
(e) A cable sent to H. E. the Governor by the local
branch of the N.C.N.A. on instructions of its head office in Peking, protesting against the continued "fascist atrocities" of the police (see my telegram No.819 of 12 June).
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An anti-British demonstration in Sha Tau Kok (close to the border with China) on the 10th June by about 1,000 people who paraded through the streets singing songs and chanting slogans, sticking up posters on public and private buildings. The demonstrators subsequently held an "anti-persecution meeting" in the rural committee premises.
A press statement by Leung Wai Lam, Director of the Hong Kong branch of the N.C.N.A. issued on 13th June, on instructions from Canton, which said that whilst China would alway welcome "compatriots" from Hong Kong who returned to the mother country of their own free will, deportation without sufficient reason would not be countenanced by the Chinese people. Leung's statement was made following publicity given to the serving of deportation orders on three people currently serving sentences for offences in connection with the disturbances, and a recommendation by a magistrate that two people he had sentenced for terms of imprisonment for similar offences, should be considered for deportation; and
the N.C.N.A. release from Peking on 13th June, of a statement by a spokesman of the C.P.G. Ministry of Foreign Affairs which said, inter alia, that the people in China have made "all the preparations" and can support at any time, the "patriotic compatriots" in Hong Kong with "actual actions No indication was given of the action envisaged but the following day, the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU),
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