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GOVERNOR,
HONG KONG,
1968
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Secretary
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From
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State.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
16 Chril 1968
I have the honour to refer to your
Despatch No.239 of 13 February, 1968 in which
you review the principal developments that have
taken place in Hong Kong since June 1967.
2.
I consider your report to be an admirably
accurate and objective history of events during
the period under review. It was regrettably
inevitable that it should need to be very
largely devoted to reporting on the course of
Communist confrontation in the Colony. The
account of the build-up of the Communist
campaign last year, the degree and manner of
support from the Chinese People's Government
and in particular, the way that the incident
of 8 July at Sha Tau Kok triggered off the
subsequent campaign of violence, confirm the
view that the confrontation was an overspill
of the cultural revolution in China. This,
among other things, resulted in a weakening of
the channel of control over local Hong Kong
Communists. But for the admirably firm and
patient policy of the Hong Kong Government and
the strong backing it received from the great
majority of the people of Hong Kong, the
Chinese People's Government might have been
tempted or obliged to give full support to the
efforts of their local supporters to disturb
the status quo and to undermine authority in
the Colony.
13.