SECRET
EDUCATION.
7. PROMINENT COVERAGE HAS BEEN GIVEN IN THE LOCAL CHINESE
COMMUNIST PRESS TO AN INVITATION TO HONG KONG AND MACAU UNIVERSITY GRADUATES TO APPLY FOR ENROLMENT IN A WIDE RANGE - OF POST-GRADUATE COURSES OFFERED BY TWENTY SIX UNIVERSITIES
IN CHINA. ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS FOR THE COURSES WILL BE
HELD IN CANTON IN MID-MAY AND SOME GRADUATES OF THE CHINESE
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG ARE REPORTED TO HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION HAS
COMMENTED THAT BECAUSE THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT MAY NOT RECOGNISE QUALIFICATIONS OBTAINED IN CHINA A NUMBER OF HONG KONG GRADUATES MAY BE DETERRED FROM APPLYING FOR PLACES ON THE COURSES OFFERED. THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC HAS RECEIVED
AN INVITATION FROM THE SIAN CHIAO T'UNG UNIVERSITY IN SHENSI TO SEND A DELEGATION TO VISIT CHINA FOR THE PURPOSE OF
EXCHANGING VIEWS ON SUCH SUBJECTS AS TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
CCMPUTERISATION AND PRODUCTION PROCESSES
STUDENT/NEW LEFT ACTIVITY.
8. A GROUP OF TEN REPRESENTATIVES FROM TWO LOCAL NEW LEFT GROUPS DELIVERED A LETTER OF PROTEST TO THE JAPANESE CONSULATE GENERAL IN HONG KONG DEMANDING THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE JAPANESE
NAVAL PRESENCE FROM THE SENKAKU ISLANDS AND CLAIMING THAT THE ISLANDS HISTORICALLY BELONG TO CHINA. THE LETTER ECHOED SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED IN SIMILAR STATEMENTS ISSUED BY STUDENT
UNIONS AND THE HONG KONG FEDERATION OF STUDENTS. IN ADDITION A NUMBER OF SLOGANS AND POSTERS PROTESTING AGAINST THE
''JAPANESE INVASION'' OF THE ISLANDS APPEARED AT SEVERAL
LOCATIONS IN HONG KONG ISLAND AND KOWLOON SIGNED BY THE HONG
XONG TROTSKYIST REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST LEAGUE. THE POSTER CAMPAIGN RECEIVED NO SUPPORT FROM THE LOCAL CHINESE PRESS, AND IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY PUBLICITY BY PEKING THE SENKAKU
ISLANDS INCIDENT IS NOT EXPECT TO BECOME A MAJOR ISSUE IN
HONG KONG.
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