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IMMEDIATE SECRET No. 776
SECRET
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
D. 5 June, 1967 R. 5
10402
Addressed to Commonwealth Office
Repeated to Peking No. 311 (Commonwealth Office please
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pass) Washington (by bag) at request of
Far Eastern Dept., Foreign Office
My telegram No. 714.
Our assessment of the situation as at 1200 hours on
5 June is as follows.
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The principal features of the Communist confrontation with the Government during the last ten days have been:-
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(b)
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Token Strikes. These were a major feature at the beginning of the period but now appear to be on the wane. Until today when 1000 maintenance workers in the Kowloon Motor Bus Company stopped work, there had been none since 30th May.
Trouble at the Government slipway, operated by the Marine Department. This originated as a protest against the removal of inflammatory posters, but now seems to be on the decline apparently as a result of Government's firm action in suspending many of the trouble makers.
Posters and newspapers, containing inflammatory material, are still displayed by a number of concerns under direct C.P.G. control, although the majority have been removed either by the owners themselves or by the police. Today a few new slogans were painted on buses in Kowloon.
The publication of a special joint edition of the Ta Kung Pao (T.K.P.) and Wen Wei Pao (W.W.P.) reproducing the editorial of the People's Daily of 3 June (Peking telegram No. 421).
The cable to me despatched by the local office of the New China News Agency (N.C.N.A.) on the instructions of the Peking Office protesting against police action following the publication by
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/Government