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PRIORITY PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
elno. 749 14 August, 1968
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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 749 of 14 August. Repeated for information to Hong Kong, POLAD Singapore, Washington.
Chung Wah School.
People's Daily of 14 August and NCNA (item 081312) published a report datelined Hong Kong entitled 'Firmly Support the Just Struggle of the Chung Wah Middle School'.
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More than 300 Hong Kong and Kowloon patriotic representatives held a meeting on 12 August to protest against this new
The meeting persecution by the H.K. British authorities. voiced its support for the Chung Wah School's struggle against British persecution, and warned the authorities that, if they did not immediately stop their new persecution, they must eat the bitter fruit of their actions.
3. The Chairman denounced the "Fascist behaviour" of the British authorities, but said
"that the great propagation
of Mao's thought and the development of patriotic education can definitely not be obstructed by a small handful or H.K. British imperialists. The H.K. British plot of deregistration can definitely not frighten the valiant students and teachers of the Chung Jah School, on the contrary, it can only raise fiercer opposition from the broad masses of H.K. and Kowloon workers, students and compatriots, and
the British will only receive an even firmer counter-blow from our compatriots"
4. A representative of the Chung Wah School said that, if the H.K. British authorities did not immediately stop their persecution, H.K. patriotic compatriots, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, "know how to deal with them".
5. Recently, many protest meetings had been held, and many patriotic compatriots had distributed leaflets, stuck up posters, published booklets and held performances on the streets, in support of the Chung Wah School. Workers, students, school friends and the staff of patriotic organisations said that, with the support of the great Socialist fatherland, they would struggle with the enemy to the end.
Mr. Cradock.
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