CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONCERNING CHINESE
GOVERNMENT'S "DEMANDS" ON HONG KONG
ong Kong 7.5.67.
Hong Kong 12.5.67.
Peking 15.5.67
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to Mr. Carter K.K. Dept.
Following disturbances at an artificial flower
factory, the Rubber and Plastic Workers Union put forward
four demands:
(a)
(b)
immediate release of workers arrested;
punishment of evil-doers and payment
of compensation;
(c) guarantee of the workers' personal safety;
(a) no interference henceforth by the police
in labour disputes.
F.T.U.:
(a) Immediately cease bloody suppression,
(b)
guarantee no recurrence of similar
repressive incidents;
immediately release all arrested Chinese
workers, students and compatriots;
(c) severely punish the culprits and pay
compensation for all losses;
(a) Hong Kong British authorities must confess
their crimes.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs handed our Chargé
copy of a M.F.A. statement (which was published).
included the following:-
I should like 3 spare copies, please.
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"The Chinese Government demands in all seriousness
that the British Government instruct the British
authorities in Hong Kong as follows:
Immediately accept all the just demands put
forward by Chinese workers and residents
in Hong Kong.
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Immediately stop all Fascist measures.
Ammoniately