En Clair
MOSCOW
Telno 1279
UNCLASSIFIED
ΤΟ
FOREIGN OFFICE
20 July 1967
937
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 1279 of 20 July, Repeated for information to Peking, Hong Kong, Singapore, Washington.
Hong Kong.
Izvestiya of 19 July carries short commentary on disturbances in Hong Kong under headline "Back stage deal".
2.
Hong Kong business circles and British authorities are said to have reacted calmly, in the knowledge that "their partner in profits does not want to close down so advantageous a business". The alleged deal is said to concern "not the ending of British colonial rule or the weakening of the sweated regime in Hong Kong factories, which receive their profits from the exploitation of cheap labour, but the redistribution of dividends of the joint stock company called the colony of Hong Kong".
3. Article concludes by stating that the United States are confident that the deal between the Mao group and the British authorities will not interfere with their use of the colony in connection with the Viet Nam war.
Sir G. Harrison
Sent 1254Z 20 July
Recd 1440Z 20 July
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