BY BAG
SCR 1/2/4841/66
CONFIDENTIAL
RR Garside Esq
UCT 1976
PEKING
AJUL 010/30
31
Government
20
18 October, 1976
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CHINESE LEADERSHIP CRISIS
You may like to have the attached extract (if you have not already seen it) from the Hsinhua News Bulletin describing the reaction of 'patriotic compatriots' in Hong Kong and Macau to the recent decisions of the Central Committee (and other bodies) about the future of Mao's physical corpse and literary corpus. You should be getting through other channels some further details. One cadre apparently commented to Goodstadt that it was all 'exactly the same as the Lin Piao affair'.
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Meanwhile the stock Market has been yo-yoing up and down, but mainly the latter.
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(CD 3 Drace-Francis)
JF R Martin Esq
Far Eastern Department FCO
T J David Esq
Hong Kong Department FCO
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