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TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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OCTOBER 1967
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RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63
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VEEKLY ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION AS AT 2 OCTOBER 0600
TOURS FOLLOWS IN TWO PARTS.
PART. 1.
CAD THE CONTINUATION OF C P G NATIONAL, DAY CELEBRATIONS WHICH
REACHED THEIR PEAK ON 1 OCTOBER.
APART FROM ONE MINOR BREACH
OF REGULATIONS BY A COMMUNIST CINEMA ALL PUBLIC FUNCTIONS HELD
TO DATE HAVE COMPLIED WITH THE LAW. THE REFERENCES MADE TO
CONFRONTATION DURING PRIVATE CELEBRATIONS HAVE BEEN COMPARATIVELY
MILD IN TONE. THERE HAVE BEEN NO CALLS FOR CONTINUATION OF ACTS
OF VIOLENCE. ATTENDANCE HAS BEEN AS MUCH AS 30 PERCENT BELOW
THE LEVEL EXPECTED BY THE ORGANISERS.
(B) A LIMITED DEFIANCE ON 1 OCTOBER OF GOVERNMENT'S BAN ON THE
DISCHARGE OF FIREWORKS. APART FROM ISOLATED DISCHARGES,
THE PRINCIPAL AREA INVOLVED WAS THE WESTERN DISTRICT WATER FRONT,
VICTORIA, WHERE MILITANT WHARF LABOURERS, BASED ON A C P G
QUIED SHIPPING COMPANY PREMISES, AND SUPPORTED BY OTHER COMMUNISTS,
PARTICULARLY STUDENTS, SOUGHT TO DEFY THE AUTHORITIES. · WHEN PULTOZ ARRIVED THEY WERE ATTACKED BY THE CROWD, NUMBERING 1,500,
THEN DERE 86 AND ONE DEMONSTRATOR WAS KILLED BY POLICE FIRE.
AT ONE STAGE THE CROWD WAS RICOURAGED BY BROADCASTS
PRO. A C P G RIVER BOAT BERTHED KEZRGY, BUT THESE DRASED UPON
GIVEN
ING GIVEN DY MARINE POLICE.