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INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (O.A.G.)
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D. 12 July 1967
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No.1013
Addressed to Commonwealth Office
Repeated
POLAD Singapore No.233
(C.O. please pass IMMEDIATE)
My immediately preceding telegram.
Hong Kong Confrontation.
Isolated cases of violence and threats to Europeans have been reported, though it would be wrong to describe the
There has been focus of present activities as "anti-European". talk of the preparation of terrorist methods for use against such targets as the police and Europeans.
2. As yet no terrorist/assassination organisations are known to exist, as such, in the Colony. If, however, Communist operations become even more violent the existence of an organised network, readily available supplies and plenty of trained manpower close at hand in China would make their establishment relatively simple. In planning for the future, therefore, we must take into account the possibility of a straight terrorist campaign developing in a comparatively short time, directed against the police, Government servants and those co-operating with the Government.
(Passed as requested)
(Advance copies passed to Messrs. de la Mare, Wilson, Bolland, Denson and Commonwealth Secretary)
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