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IMMEDIATE HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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9 October 1967
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No. 1509 of 9 October
Repeated for information to POLAD Singapore, Washington and Canberra
From LIC to JIC.
Weekly assessment of the situation as at 9 October 0600 hours follows in two parts (Part I only for Canberra).
The principal features of the Communist confrontation during the period have been:
(a) the completion of CPG National Day celebrations on 8 October: all held during the week were within the law. Decorations have now been removed from Communist premises. During the first three days of the week non inflammatory broadcasts were made from several CPG vessels moored near the water front. These stopped upon the arrival of the police. (b) Publicity in the Communist Press for a statement issued on 3rd October by the All Circles National Day celebrations Preparatory Committee denouncing Government for "provocative interference" with CPG National Day celebrations. The next day the All Circles anti-Persecution Struggle Committee (ACAPSC) called on all Struggle Committees and "fighting units" to seek "revenge'. On 5 October, Radio Peking broadcast a report of the incident in Western district, (paragraph 1 (b) of my telegram 1468 refers), warning the Hong Kong Government against "hostile acts" and the same day the Hong Kong and Kowloon fishermen's anti-Persecution Struggle Committee announced a fish market strike from 8 to 10 October in retaliation for the "October 10th false National Day". This strike had little effect on the supplies of fish on 8 October.
(c) A resurgence of bomb incidents which followed the call for "revenge" by the ACAPSC (paragraph 1 (b) refers). Forty four gun powder bombs, including three which were thrown at Security Forces, resulted in injuries to 6 police, an army "bomb" expert and 4 civilians. All the "genuine" bombs appeared on two days and were probably the work of two groups, one on the Island and one in Kowloon. Three arrests were made in connection with the incidents.
(d) Continued anti-British propaganda in the Communist Press which resumed some of its former virulence in articles and editorials condemning Government's "frenzied suppression of National Day celebrations" and urging response to the ACAPSC call for retaliatory action: in this context, the bomb
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