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(b) The British authorities must not interfere
with the spread of the thought of Mao Tse-tung; (c) In all economic and business activities the British authorities "must keep in mind" the economic interests of China.
P'ang said that the price for Grey had not gone up. soon as Hsueh P'ing was released Grey would be allowed to leave Chine. He specified that there were seven prisoner: who qualified as patriotic journalists - the two NOK representatives and five reporters from Ta Kung Pao. Plang emphasised that Grey's conditions were much better than those of the Chinese journalists. He was only under house arrest whereas the Chinese were in prison where they wore beaten up every day and had not, for example, been allowed to have winter clothing.
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Bargmann said that Fei Ming claimed that fifty Hong Kong Communists were going to Canton cach month. Fei Ming object.1 when Bargmann referred to this as "training" and described it as "living with the revolutionary masses and the PLA and cxchanging revolutionary experiences".
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Bargmann said that his interlocutors had described the bomb attacks as only the first stage in their plan. They were now into the second phase in which their aim was to propagate the thought of lao in order to "prepare for Day
(allegedly the words used by the Chinese). During this part of the conversation Bargmann formed the impression that the Communists had been badly disappointed by the poor support their campaign during last summer had received from the bulk of the Hong Kong population. They claimed that thore were 16 communist schools in the colony which were to be used as the nucleus for spreading the Thought. The plan was to build more schools sc that by the end of 1969 there would be 25 or 30. In addition, the existing schools would to enlarged. All this was being done with the support of (eking.
2. Another communist aim in Hong Kong was to streamline and purge the Communist Party apparatus and in particular to weed out those people who supported the "anarchist" T'ao Chu. Jei Ming admitted that T'ao Chu had earlier been one of his cost friends but Fei had now come to understand T’ac's cvll
ttempts to "sabotage the proletarian headquarters". There had also been other individuals in Canton who had "attempted to further their own ambitions" but now the authority of Peking mas firmly established in Canton.
Another aim was to strengthen the Communist Trade Unions In the colony. They intended to convince the workers that She Communists were their natural allies and to take a much more active part in future in industrial disputes.
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