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CONFIDENTIAL
PRIORITY HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
Telno 1761
25 November 1967
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Addressed Peking telegram No. 631 of 25 November
Your telegram No. 115 to Hong Kong and No. 257 to Foreign Office.
On 1 November, students from Heung To School gathered in a major road in Kowloon and chanted slogans and sang songs. After a police inspector was assaulted police reinforcements arrived and the whole group of fifty two students and one teacher was arrested and charged with taking part in an intimidating assembly. The teacher has been sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 HK dollars or 3 months in lieu. The students have been tried and convicted but remanded until 6 December for a Probation Officer's report. 2. Early on 15 November a man and a woman, both prominent in Communist film circles and members of the Standing Group of the A.C.A.P.S.C, were arrested on deportation orders.
3. During the evening of 19 November a group of about 100 students and workers gathered briefly in a minor road in Kowloon. They dispersed before the police arrived leaving behind inflammatory banners and leaflets. There were no arrests. This presumably is the demonstration to which the Peoples Daily refers.
4 The full NCNA release also refers to a police raid on a Film Union premises on 19 November. There were no arrests but students from the nearby Cheung Yeh Institute were found there. On 19 November police attempting to remove inflammatory posters from outside the same Union premises were involved in a melee with people who rushed out to prevent them. Twelve people were arrested but as far as is known none were students. The Cheung Yeh Institute itself has not been raided.
Foreign Office please pass Priority Peking as my telegram 631. Sir D. Trench
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RECEIVED IN ARCHS No. 63 27 NOV 1967
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