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"your usual offe ve remarks on China is a not untypical produs of British colonial mentality. Two persons have Lied vindictively, sadistically and brutally after being taken into British police custody, for being patriotic (no crime in any Civilised democratic country), their deaths being caused by fractured ribs and ruptured spleens according to an autopsy conducted by a government pathologist. Thousands of Chinese schoolchildren and workers are now after a year still suffering in British prisons, and tens of Chinese business, cultural and labour leaders are in the detention camp. This month, schoolchildren armed only with brushes and paintpots were made targets for police pistol shooting when writing protests against the Government's closure of their school, just because of an accident caused by a minor explosion in the school laboratory.
"Do these acts represent the norm of civilised British conduct? Whatever the effects of the present deteriorated Sino-British relations and however distasteful and regrettable they may be, the British are wholly responsible for causing them. In the past the British Hongkong Government has always adopted the correct neutral policy vis-a-vis the Government in control in China versus the dissident Chinese who took refuge in Hongkong, but ever since the liberation and unification of China and the establishment of the People's Republic, although Britain professes friendship towards China and recognises its Government, the Hongkong British Government has continuously shown its hatred and hostility towards China and the Chinese by its oppression and persecution of the patriotic Chinese and the encouragement and support of the Chiang Kai- shek agents and the renegade Chinese in Hongkong.
"The first act of hostilities by the Hongkong British towards new China was the cancellation of the public holiday on China's National Day, a diplomatic courtesy extended to China from time immemorial. Then, the appointment by the Hongkong Government of members of a certain political allegiance to its Labour and Ecucation Advisory Boards with the obvious view of oppressing and suppressing the patriotic labour unions and schools. Those premises with the portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung are marked for persecution and those premises with the portrait of President Chiang Kai-shek are marked for favour. The first victim of this hostile policy of the Hongkong Govern- ment towards China were the schools for the workers' children. Then came legislation to amend the education ordinance, which was conceived in hatred for China and dedicated to the persecution of Chinese patriotic schools.
"The Hongkong British call China "Red China" oz "Communist China", and Chinese patriots "Reds", "Leftists" or "Communists" in their sinister attempt to de-Chinese them in support of Chiang Kai-shek's United Nations' claim that the Government of the People's Republic of China is not Chinese. The British use of the words "Red", "Communists" and "Leftist" in place of Chinese patriots is a mean and dirty British trick to fool the world. These words are used by the British lest the people of the world should, by calling them Chinese, get the idea