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VISIT OF DEPUTY
UNDER-SECRETARY
(SIR LESLIE MONSON)
ΤΟ HONG KONG, OCTOBER
COMMUNIST
CONFRONTATION
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Note No. 4
OF
STATE
1969
There are three issues arising out of Communist
confrontation which present particular problems:-
(a) the Communist press
(b) Communist schools
(c) those Communist prisoners who are still serving
long term sentences for offences connected with
the 1967 disturbances.
(c) is dealt with in a separate Note prepared by Far Eastern Department on the subject of Sino/Hong Kong/British relations
generally.
2.
The Communists have always attached great importance to (a) and (b), which they see as their main instruments to
further their campaign of subversion. The notes on these aspects below are mainly for information; we have no points to raise on (a), and on (b) it seems necessary only to show
interest in the progress being made to find ways of confining communist efforts to expand their activities in the
educational field.
BACKGROUND
General
3. It is now nearly two years since the end of the Communist campaign of violence against the Hong Kong authorities.
During this period there has been no organised violence in the Colony; there have been sporadic incidents involving violence o
a minor scale but such incidents are believed to have been
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