COPY FOR REGISTRATION CORN FOR TEATRATION
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INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (0.A.G.)
Cypher
D. 28 July 1967 R. 28
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office Repeated to: Peking No.459
POLAD Singapore No.272 Washington No. 240
(S. of S. please pass to all)
Following is weekly assessment of situation as at midnight 27/28 July.
The principal features of the Communist confrontation over past week have been:
(a) a continuation of home-made bomb attacks. The number
of these attacks increased sharply on 26 July, when 11 explosions took place, mainly in Kowloon - resulting in 13 people being injured and one man, involved in the attacks, being shot dead by police. For the first time in more than a week, small scale mob violence broke out, also on the 26th; however these disturbances were quickly quelled by police action;
(b) further minor incidents of missile throwing including
incursions at Security Forces on the border;
(c) the payment of a second month's "subsistence allowance"
to striking workers. This will be a lengthy business as the majority of the union members are being paid at home. In one case, the Tramways Workers' Union, a Communist bank has refused to honour in full cheques made out to strikers, claiming that there are insufficient funds available. This has caused dissatisfaction amongst the strikers and may indicate that the Communist labour movement is running short of funds to support the strikers;
(a) attempts by officials of the Hong Kong Seamen's Union,
which to a large extent have proved abortive, to spread the seamen's strike. So far only two vessels, both of which were scheduled to sail for China, have been delayed as a result of the strike, though a number of others have sailed with slightly reduced orewa;
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a continuation of violent anti-British propaganda Communist press, the major emphasis being attacks police for action against Communist organisationd。 Propaganda from China continues to concentrade upon the arrest and trial of N.C.N.A. and other local Communist reporters.
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