EN CLAIR
IMMEDIATE FEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Telno 631
3 June 1967
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UNCLASSIFIED
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No.631 of 3 June. Repeated for information to Hong Kong, Washington, and POLAD Singapore.
People's Daily of 3 June carries front page editorial on Hong Kong under headlines firmly rebuff provocation by British Imperialism following are main points.
2. A great struggle to oppose British Imperialist bloody persecution has broken out in Hong Kong. From the beginning of May Hong Kong compatriots have flocked into the streets chanting Mao's quotations despite armed suppression by British army and police. Workers in all kinds of enterprises have gone on strike or stopped work.
3. Despite several warnings from our government the Hong Kong British authorities have not only refused to bow their heads and admit their guilt for the Fascist atrocities committed by them but have also carried out even stronger provocations against the Chinese people. They are continuing to arrest and question our compatriots illegally.
They have viciously beaten
and tortured to death those arrested. They have issued a series or so called emergency laws and planning even more large-scale arrests and persecution. They have brought in an aircraft carrier and are openly boasting of a show of force.
4. British Imperialism reckons that the Chinese people will be scared by a few police truncheons, laws or warships. This is an idiotic illusion. Our compatriots have said correctly that if the Hong Kong British authorities escalate their atrocities the anti-British struggle will also be escalated. They have
warned the British imperialists that this struggle has only just begun. An even more neroic and large scale struggle is still to come. Our compatriots will certainly firmly struggle, oppose a stubborn enemy, pursue a tottering roe and will bring down British Imperialism and make it stink.
5. British Imperialism is the vicious coloniser of Hong Kong it is the enemy of the 4 million Chinese compatriots ard of the 700 million Chinese people. For the last 100 years decadent, corrupt Imperialism has carried out cruel suppression of Hong Kong compatriots. The Hong Kong army, police, agents, courts and prisons are all tools of persecution of our compatriots. British Imperialism has plundered and exploited our compatriots and reduced most of them to poverty. They have corrupted them with the most decadent rotten western culture. In the last few years they have colluded with United States imperialism to make Hong Kong a base for Viet Nam war and to oppose China the bloody debts and towering crimes of British imperialism over the last 100 years must be repaid.
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The Fascist atrocities of British Imperialism have obliged our compatriots to open a movement to hate and despise
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