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FO/CAB 984
Hong Ko
Cong воро Deft.
·COMMONWEALTH OFFICE PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING PRIORITY IN CATEGORY
+A+ CYPHER TO GOVERNOR HONG KONG.
600
GITHE
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P Ø220252
FM JIC LONDON
ADDED
TO GOVERNOR HONG KONG
PHIONITY
JICTEL 803
FOR SECRETARY LIC (HONG KONG)
DATED 2/11/1967
FROM SECRETARY JIC.
FOLLOWING IS EXTRACT FROM WEEKLY SURVEY OF INTELLIGENCE
DATED 2/11/67.
BEGINS.
HONG KONG (SECRET)
1. AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF BOMB INCIDENTS IN THE PAST FEW DAYS WAS TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH THE OPENING OF HONG KONG WEEK ON 30TH OCTOBER. AS A COUNTER-ATTRACTION LOCAL COMMUNISTS ARE
STAGING A +CHINA PRODUCTS FORTNIGHT+ WHICH BEGAN ON 29TH OCTOBER.
2. A GROUP OF COMMUNIST LEADERS FROM CHINESE GOVERNMENT, BANKING, COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING, PRESS AND LABOUR SPHERES HAVE BEEN VISITING CHINA, REMAINING THERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS. PROBABLY AS A RESULT A COMMITTEE HAS BEEN FORMED IN CANTON TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL COMMUNISTS IN THEIR CONFRONTATION WITH THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT. THIS INITIATIVE
MAY WELL HAVE RESULTED FROM THE COMMUNIST LEADERS' REPORTS OF THE
LOW LEVEL OF COMMUNIST ACTIVITY AND MORALE IN HONG KONG. THE
FORMATION OF THIS COMMITTEE AND THE IMPLICATION OF SUPPORT FROM
CHINA WILL DOUBTLESS BE EXPLOITED AS A PROPAGANDA THEME, BUT IT
REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHAT EFFECT THIS WILL HAVE ON THE MORALE OF LOCAL COMMUNISTS IF IT IS NOT FOLLOWED UP BY MORE ACTIVE SUPPORT THAN THE MORAL AND FINANCIAL BACKING HITHERTO RECEIVED FROM THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE FORMATION OF THIS COMM-
ITTEE MAY BE INTENDED AS A MEANS OF EXERCISING MORE EFFECTIVE
CONTROL FROM CHINA OVER COMMUNIST ORGANISATIONS IN HONG KONG.
3.
THERE WAS A DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE CLOSING OF THE MAN KAM
TO BRIDGE ON 30TH OCTOBER, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH ATTEMPTS WERE
MADE TO REMOVE THE BARRIER AND THREE STICK GRENADES WERE THROWN
BY THE DEMONSTRATORS. DESPITE INTERVENTION BY THE PLA, HONG KONG
SECURITY FORCES HAD TO USE PHOSPHORUS GRENADES TO BREAK UP THE
DEMONSTRATIONS ON TWO OCCASIONS.
ENDS.
SENT AT 2186Z
2/11
JMR KK
HWAY/1
RECD AT 02/2107Z RD
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