558
CLAIR
TRIORITY PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
TELNO 465 23 MAY 1968
UNCLASSIFIED
ADDRESSED TO FOPLIGN OFFICE TEL NO.465 OF 23 MAY REPEATED
FOR INFORMATION TO HONG KONG AND POLAD SINGAPORE.
PEOPLE'S DAILY OF 22 MAY CARRIES AN ITEM ON HONG KONG, A
SOMEWHAT ABRIDGED VERSION OF WHICH APPEARS IN NCNA OF 22 MAY.
2. THE ARTICLE REPORTS THAT A DELEGATION OF QUOTE PATRIOTS
UNQUOTE WHO HAD BEEN IMPRISONED IN HONG KONG HAD PECENTLY
VISITED AND STUDIED IN CANTON. THE DELEGATION RELATED THE IR
EXPERIENCES IN THE PAST YEAR OF STRUGGLE TO CANTON'S
REVOLUTIONARY MASSER, WHO EXPRESSED THEIR DETERMINATION TO
SUPPORT TO THE END THE JUST STRUGGLE OF THE IR HONG HONG
COMPATRIOTS.
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3. SINCE LAST MAY THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES HAVE USED TROOPS
AND POLICE IN LARGE SCALE ARMED REPRESSION OF PATRIOTIC
CHINESE, TRADE UNIONS, SCHOOLS AND MASS ORGANISATIONS. GROUP
AFTER GROUP OF PATRIOTS HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY BEATEN UP AND
ILLEGALLY ARRESTED. HOWEVER, THE CHINESE HAVE DEFENDED AND
UPHELD THEIR SACRED FIGHT TO STUDY AND PROPAGATE THE THOUGHT
OF MAO, THE DICNITY OF THE GREAT SOCIALIST MOTHERLAND AND
THEIR FREEDOM OF WORK AND RESIDENCE IN HONG KONG. COMPATRIOTS
FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE HAVE DEALT POWERFUL COUNTER-FLOWS
AGAINST THE FASCIST OPPRESSION OF THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES.
4. PEOPLE'S DAILY, BUT NOT NCNA, INCLUDES A PASSAGE
DESCRIBING HOW THE PRISONERS MADE MÃO PROPAGANDA IN THE LAW
COURTS AND REFUSED TO CONFESS THEIR CRIMES DESPITE LACK OF
FOOD AND WINTER CLOTHING AND FORCED LABOUR IN THE PRISONS.
THE FAMILIES OF THOSE IN PRISON HAVE RESOLUTELY REFUSED TO
CARRY OUT FORMALITIES FOR SO-CALLED CONDITIONAL RELEASE
C4687-0202-6847-2397) ON BEHALF OF THEIR IMPRISONED RELATIVES.
COMPATRIOTS IN PRISON PERSISTED IN THE STUDY AND
APPLICATION OF MAO'S THOUGHT QUOTES IN DEFIANCE OF ENEMY'S
OBSTRUCTION AND INTIMIDATION UNQUOTES.
5.
$530/5
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