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of the British Government was "a serious provocation to the people of China, Vietnam and all South-East Asia".
After referring to "the large-scale suppression and persecution of their patriotic countrymen in Hong-Kong" its collusion with the U.S. aggressors constituted "new provocation against the Chinese people" and showed that the professions of the British Government that it desired to ease the situation in Hong-Kong, and improve relations between China and Britain, were not only false, but concealed its stubborn pursuit of a "reactionary policy of hostility towards the Chinese people". This line of action on the part of the British Government had resulted in a further worsening of the situation in Hong-Kong, and a further deterioration in Sino-British relations. The responsibility for this must rest solely with the British Covernment, the note stated.
The note reportedly concluded by demanding that the British Government immediately crder the U.S. nuclear-powered air-craft carrier "Enterprise" to leave Hong-Kong and to end its "offering of Hong-Kong to U.S. imperialism as a base of operation and logistics centre for its war of aggression against Vietnam". Should the British Government continue to act as a jackal to the lion and obdurately to follow the poliries ofaggression and war of the U.S. Government, thus setting itself against the people of China, Vietnam and all South-East Asia "it will certainly eat the bitter fruits of its
own making.'
In a further broadcast in English on the same day, the New China News Agency carried a supporting dispatch giving a detailed account of the visits of U.S. war-ships to Hong-Kong in the first five months of 1969