CONFIDENTIAL FOR REGISTRATION 235
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
(The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
D. 12 June, 1967.
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The text of the telegram sent by Leung Wai Lam, Director of the local branch of the N.C.N.A. at 2400 hours on 10 June is as follows:-
"Mr. Trench (G.H. Upper Alber Road).
During the past few days the Hong Kong British authorities have deployed large groups of police and "anti-riot squads" to carry out extreme Fascist atrocities in persecuting our patriotic compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon; forbidding the pasting up of posters of Mao Tse-Tung's thoughts, and also posters disclosing the atrocities of the H.K. British authorities, as well as big character posters and pictures, and suppressing our compatriots' anti-persecution struggle.
On 8 June, the H.K. British "anti-riot squads" again attacked the workers in Government electrical and mechanical section of the P.W.D. depot and the Gas Company at Tokwawan; they beat up large numbers of workers and arrested some five hundred odd persons. Up to now, there are still a large number of workers detained by the police without reason. the persons arrested was a worker of the G.E.M.E. of P.W.D., Twui Tin Port (1776-3944-3134). Tsuit was later beaten to
death by the H.K. British police.
Among
Late in the evening of 9 June, the H.K. British police and their special agents carried out another premedi- tated plot in attacking the Silver Palace Theatre in Kwun Tong, Kowloon. There they beat up staff members of the theatre and arrested, without just cause, the manager and twenty odd employees. At the same time, articles were stolen.
The most important thing was that the police and their special agents dared to smash to pieces a statue of Chairman Mao; and to tear to pieces pictures and posters of Mao Tse-Tung's thoughts. This is a direct insult to the great leader of the Chinese people, and is an extreme political
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