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ĮMMEDIATE PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Telno. 861 9 July 1967
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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 861 of 9 July Repeated for information to Hong Kong, Singapore and Washington
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My telegram No. 857 [Sha Tau Kok
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"On July 8, people on our side of Sha Tay Kok and Chinese inhabitants of the new territories" Kowloon held a rally on our side to voice support for our patriotic countrymen in Hong Kong and Kowloon in their just struggle against brutal persecution by the British authorities in Hong Kong. After the rally they demonstrated along different routes. When the Chinese inhabitants were returning to the "new territories" Kowloon from the demonstra- tion fully armed policemen and "riot police" of the British authorities in Hong Kong flagrantly carried out a premoditated sanguinary suppression of them, throwing tear bombs and opening fire at them and at the same time fired at our side.
The Chinese frontier gúards at once fired warning shots against such. atrocities and provocations by the British side. But in totai disregard of the warnings from our side the policemen and riot police" of the British authorities in Hong Kong continued to fire at the demonstrators killing one and wounding eight of them. Our frontier guards also fired back at the policemen and "riot police" of the British authorities in Hong Kong.
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Following the suppression of the demonstrating masses in Sha Tau Kok on 24 June, in which the British authorities in Hong Kong wounded and arrested more than two. [sic] people and threw tear bombs to our side and wounded more than thirty people on our side they now again perpetrated in the Sha Tau Kok the above mentioned sanguinary atrocity of carrying out serious armed provocation against the Chinese people. The Chinese Government hereby lodges the most urgent and strongest protest with the British Government and raises the following demands to the British Government.
Make public apologies for the 8 July armed provocation in Sha Tau Kok:
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2. Immediately punish the culprits, compensate for all the losses suffered by the inhabitants of Sha Tau Kok and by the dead and wounded and release all the inhabitants arrested since 24 June in the Sha Tau Kok region:
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Guarantee that no similar incidents will occur in the future.
During the past two months the British Government and the British authorities in Hong Kong have been stepping up their Fascist s"pression of the Chinese inhabitants in Hong Kong in disregard of repeated warnings of the Chinese Government, And now the British Government and the British authorities in Hong Kong
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