ZCZC LTA394 091632 DXA313

YAYL:6. 08-1618 YHE136

YY, TWX

2325: PROHONGA ID:

LONDON SIX

GIS 205/77 (ADD)

THE MONG KONG CHRISTIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE STRONGLY OPPOSED WHAT IT CALLED +UNREASONABLE+ DEMANDS BY POLICEMEN AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO PARALYSE+ THE ICAC.

IT STRESSED THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY

FURTHER CONCESSION.

THE REFORM CLUB POINTED OUT THAT THE AMNESTY HAD NOT RESOLVED: THE COMPLAINTS RAISED BY THE POLICEMEN. BUT IT HOPED THAT THE PEOPLE CONCERNED WOULD ACCEPT THE GOVERNOR'S DECISION.

IN INTERVIEWS WITH SING TAO JIH PAO, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RANK-AND-FILE POLICEMEN ASSOCIATION, MR. EN PUI-CHEK SAID THEY AGREED WITH THE GOVERNMENT IN GRANTING THE AMNESTY AND THAT THEIR DEMANDS WERE ALSO REASONABLE. THEY WOULD GO THROUGH PROPER CHANNELS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, HE SAID. HE ADDED THAT THE POLICEMEN WERE ANXIOUS TO SEEK AN EXPLANATION FROM THE AUTHORITIES ABOUT THE AVNESTY BECAUSE THE GOVERNOR WOULD LEAVE HONG KONG FÜR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EEC SOUN.

KUNG SHEUNG DAILY NE.S INTERVIEWED TWO PATROLLING POLICE OFFICERS WHO AGREED THAT A PULICEMAN SHOULD BE SACKED FOR DISOBEDIENCE.

IN ITS FRONT PAGE LEAD, THE HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL SAID THE POLICE INCIDENT HAD EXERTED A GREATER PRESSURE ON HONG KONG'S ECONOMY THAN OUTSIDE POLITICAL INFLUENCE AND TRADE RESTRICTIONS.

MORE INFORMS HKC TKL

NAAN

ZCZC LTX891 031626 DXA309 YBX055_0-1619 YHE137

YY TWX

2027: PRCHONGAID:

(LONDON SEVEN)

GIS 405/77 (ADD)

SOME PAPERS UOTED A SENIOR OFFICIAL OF THE BRITISH FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE AS SAYING THAT THEY FELT DISGUSTED ABOUT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS INVOLVING A GRJUP OF POLICEVEN AND THAT THEY SUPPORTED THE DECISION MADE BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.

INFORMS HONGKONG REUTER HKGXTKL

A.

، ܢ ܼܝ

Share This Page