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A.
THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE INTERVIEW WAS FAIRLY RELAXED AND NONA
WERE AT PAINS TO APPEAR TO BE REASONABLE. THEY FLAZED LITTLE
EMPHASIS ON THE ''DEMANDS WITH WHICH LIANG'S STATEMENT CON-
CLUDED.
5. AT 1800, TAM KON TELEPHONED ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER AND
SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY LIANG TO ADD TWO FURTHER
DEMANDS:-
(A) IMMEDIATELY RELEASE THOSE PERSONS WHO WERE ILLEGALLY
DETAINED BY THE POLICE LAST NIGHT.
(3) THEY SHOULD NEITHER BE INJURED NOR INSULTS),
6. AT 1730 A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE FROM
THE DANK OF CHINA WAS DELIVERED TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS, THIS
REPEATED THE ALLEGATION HADE BY NCNA THAT POLICE HAD ATTEMPTED
TO ENTER THE BANK OF CHINA AND ALLEGED THAT THREE BANK STAFF HAD
·BEEN ASSAULTED AND WOUNDED. THIS WAS A **PREMEDITATED POLITICAL
PROVOCATION
A SIMILARLY PHRASED LETTER FROM THE CHINA STATE
BANK. ALSO ALLEGING ASSAULT TO EMPLOYEES, WAS THROWN INTO POLICE
HEADQUARTERS FROM A CAR LATER IN THE EVENING.
7. THE COMMUNIST PRESS HAS PUBLICISED LIANG'S STATEMENT AND THE
LETTERS TO THE POLICE BUT NOT THE FACT THAT A MEETING TOOK PLACE
WITH POLITICAL ADVISER, WE SHALL KEEP QUIET ABOUT THAT POINT TOO.
FO PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING.
SIR D. TRENCH
/REPEATED AS REQUESTED
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