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I am sorry that we had not carlier sent to you tře detalle about the second and third arrested 4.0.3
reporters *I am trying to get hold of the details of the other "Left-wing"
reporters who will be up before the beak on 1st August. Incidentally, I an told that the legal authorities ex cet the trial to last for about per
The consideration about willingness to nocdpt deportation to China is, of course, a hazard in all the other casos, if we eventually try a package deal over Grey. Despite the militancy of the arrested people when they are faced with return to China it i. aot at cll igosalble that some vill jab. This any be useful pro gania point for us, but if it makes an czchange inpossible the net romit will be negative.
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& you will have gounai the accounts which op,car in Hail.A. of police action etc. in ong Long bear only ti most superficial resemblance to what happens on the ground. The account for example of the alleged "attack" for cone hours on the se Yung esorius (csilal the thina bodo Centre Ltd.) on the night of 11/12 July is a perfect example. I can't at t is noment lay holá of the N.C.H.A. secount, but I recall phracco about the hour long strug la of the compatriots against hundreds of police who more trying to force their way into the building and who eventually set it on fire. In fact there was no attempt to enter the store at all that night, though there were stret disturbances in the neigbourhood. In t e course of these tear as was used and it is
ouble that one round entered the building ca:sing a fire. is ocually possible that the cause of the fire mo the inadvertent explosion inside the building of an incendiary weapon being „repared against the police. It was the fire brigade who had the greatest dif loulty in getting into the store to put out the fire which I am glad to say that they did with great officiency. They used plenty of sea water to douse the flames and chemical spray too, I inngine, all of which had a noticeably damaging effect on the stocks of gools in the sture!
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