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INMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 849
CONFIDENTIAL
TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
4 JULY 1968
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MY TELEGRAMS NOS, 845 AND 848: DETAINEES.
UNLESS I HEAR FROM YOU TO THE CONTRARY, PROPOSE TO RELEASE THE
FIRST TWO DETAINEES ON THE EVENING OF SATURDAY, 6TH JULY.
FO PLEASE PASS IMMEDIATE PEKING
SIR D. TRENCH
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED).
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11. OF THE DETAINEES PROPOSED IS IN A PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT
...OSITIVE CATEGORY AND I WOULD NOT HANT TO HAKE UNSOLICITED
LIDITY OF THEIR RELEASE BUT I FEEL THAT THE COINCIDENCE WOULD
JADO UNNOTICED BY THE COMMUNISTŠAND THAT WE MIGHT BY THIS
KING LAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF GAINING SOMETHING WITHOUT STANDING
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Peking telegram No. 453 to Hong Kong
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3 July, 1968
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Addressed to Hong Kong telegram No. 453 of 3 July, Repeated for
information to Foreign Office,
Your telegram No. 839 to 0.0.
It would be useful to know names and professions of those proposed for
release.
Foreign Office pass Hong Kong.
Sir D. Hopson
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2 JULY, 1968
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ADDRESSED TO CO TELNO 639 OF 2ND JULY RFI PEKING.
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PEKING TELEGRAM 691 : DETAINEES.
A COPY OF THE STUDY IS BEING SENT TO YOU AND PEKING BY BAG: IT
MAY BE NECESSARY TO PARAPHRASE PARTS OF THE PEKING COPY FOR SECURITY
REASONS.
2.
PARA 4. THE PROPOSAL IS THAT WE SHOULD TRY TO NEUTKALISE1'
ONLY A VERY SMALL PROPORTION OF THOSE RELEASED.WE SHOULD OF COURSE
ACT EXTREMELY CAREFULLY. THE OBJECT WOULD BE SUBTLY TO THROW DOUBT
UPON THE CONTINUED RELIABILITY OF ONE OR TWO. THERE WOULD BE NO
EFFORT TO '*TURN** THEM.
3. MY INTENTION IN MAKING A FEW RELEASES IS IN PART TO DEMONSTRATE
A DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY TO OUTSIDE OPINION E.G. INTERNATIONAL RED
CROSS. NATURALLY I HOPE ALSO THAT A FEW RELEASES MAY HELP TO
IMPROVE THE GENERAL SINQ-BRITISH ATHOSPHERE BUT I AGREE TANGIBLE
RESULTS ARE NOT VERY LIKELY. LOCALLY I DO NOT EXPECT THIS ACTION
TO HAVE AY BENEFICIAL EFFECT AND HOPE ONLY FOR NO SERIOUS ILL-
EFFECTS.
4. I PROPOSE TO RELEASE TWO DETAINEES DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS
AND ANOTHER TWO SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. THE EXACT TIMING WOULD BE
DECIDED IN THE LIGHT OF THE CURRENT SITUATION. I SHALL, OF COURSE,
GIVE YOU AND PEKING NOTICE.
15.
SECRET
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2.
ON THE BASIS OF THE REACTION TO THESE RELEASES AND OTHER
RELEVANT FACTORS I WILL THEN CONSIDER WHETHER WE CAN CONTEMPLATE
GOING ANY FURTHER.
b. I FEAR THERE IS NOTHING I FEEL I CAN USEFULLY ADD TO WHAT I
HAVE ALREADY SAID ON THE OTHER ISSUES IN THE TELEGRAMS UNDER
REFERENCE. HOWEVER, I WILL OF COURSE CONTINUE TO BEAR THESE VIEWS
IN MIND AS THE SITUATION DEVELOPS HERE.
F.0. PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING,
SIR D. TRENCH
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ADDRESSED CO TELEGRAM NO. 828 OF 28TH JUNE REPEATED PEKING
PA SINGAPORE AND WASHINGTON.
BETWEEN 23 AND 28 JUNE 22 (TWENTY TWO BADLY DECOMPOSED BODIES
WERE RECOVERED FROM THE SEA OR WASHED UP ON THE SEA SHORE IN BRITISH
TERRITORY, NEARLY ALL WERE CHINESE MALES BETWEEN THIRTY AND FORTY
YEARS OF AGE. TWO WERE FEMALES AND IN ONE OR TWO CASES IT HAS BEEN
IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE SEX.
SEVENTEEN OUT OF THE TWENTY TWO BODIES RECOVERED HAD THEIR HANDS
BOUND BEHIND THEIR BACKS. IN MANY CASES THE ROPE ALSO PASSED ROUND
THE NECK. ONE BODY WAS FOUND WITH A BLINDFOLD AS WELL AS BEING
BOUND, AND HAD WHAT APPEARED TO BE A HOLE ABOUT TWO BY THREE INCHES
IN THE RIGHT CHEST.
3. AUTOPSIES HAVE BEEN PERFORMED ON FOUR OF THE BODIES BUT THE RES-
-ULTS ARE NOT YET KNOWN. THEIR GENERAL STATE INDICATES THAT THEY
WERE IN THE WATER FOR TWO OR THREE WEEKS BEFORE BEING RECOVERED.
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4. MORE OF THE BODIES WERE RECOVERED IN THE WESTERN AREAS OF THE
COLONY. THE INFERENCE IS THAT THEY CAME FROM THE PEARL RIVER
ESTUARY AND ARRIVED IN HONG KONG WATERS, INSTEAD OF BEING SWEPT
OUT TO SEA, BECAUSE OF UNUSUAL TIDE CONDITIONS. IT IS HARD TO
ESCAPE THE CONCLUSION THAT THEY ARE VICTIMS OF FACTIONAL FIGHTING
IN KWANGTUNG PROVINCE, OR CONCEIVABLY KWANGSI, WHERE THERE HAVE
BEEN PERSISTENT REPORTS OF VIOLENT STRUGGLES.
5. THE STORY HAS AROUSED INTENSE INTEREST IN THE LOCAL ENGLISH
LANGUAGE AND RIGHT-WING CHINESE PRESS, BUT THE BODIES HAVE RECEIVED
NO CREPEAT NO MENTION SO FAR IN THE COMMUNIST PRESS.
PEKING
FO PLEASE PASS ROUTINE PEKING AS MYTEL 315, AND WASHINGTON AS
KITEL Bộ
SIR D. TRENCH
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PEKING TELEGPA C. 01 TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
UNTIL RECENTLY THE MAJORITY OF COMMUNIST PRISONERS REFUSED TO WORK, AND
ALTHOUGH THEY WEFE ALLOWED PRIVILEGES SUCH AS THAT OF RECEIVING VISITS
IKE) WERE KEPT LOCKED IN THEIF CELLS EXCEPT DURING
EXCEFCISE PEFICDS. OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS PRISON STAFF HAVE
TFIED TO PERSUADE THER TC WORK, BUT NO PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE, LARGELY
BECAUSE THE PRISONERS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO IMPOSE UNACCEPTABLE
CONDITIONS.
2. IN THE LAST TWO DAYS THERE HAS BEEN A COMPLETE CHANGE OF ATTITUDE.
ALL COMMUNIST PRISOXELS, INCLUDING THE JOURNALISTS ARE NOW WORKING
IN THE NORMAL WAY. THEY ARE NO LONGER BEING KEPT LOCKED IN THEIR
CELLS.
3. THE FEASON FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT IS NOT CLEAR, BUT THE ARGUMENT
THAT COMMUNIST PRISONERS ARE BEING GRANTED PRIVILEGES TO WHICH THEY ARE
NOT ENTITLED CE.G. PARAGRAPH OF OUR TELEGRAM NO. 591) IS
NO LONGER VALID.
FO PLEASE PASS ROUTINE PEKING AS MYTEL 314.
SIR. D. TRENCH
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18 JUNE 1960
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19 JUN 968
ADDRESSED PEKING TELNO 295 OF 16TH JUNE RFI CO PA SINGAPORE.
TOUR TELEGRAM 412 (571 TO LONDON NOT TO SINGAPORE.
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ARRESTS ON 11TH, 13TH AND 14TH JUNE AT CHEUNG SHA WAN. READ IN
FOUR COLUMNS (A) ARRESTED (B) RELEASED SEFORE TRIAL (O) CONVICTED
(D) HELD PENDING TRIAL.
11TH JUNE (A) 3 (B) NIL (3) 1 (D) ?.
13TH JUNE CA) 13 (B) 3 (THAT NIGHT) (0) 1 (0) 9.
14TH JUNE (A) 14 CB) 1 (THAT NIGHT, 7 AFTER INVESTIGATION) (C) 2
402 6.
TOTAL (A) 32 (8) 11 (3) 4 (D) 17 ALL CONVICTED PLEADED GUILTY.
FO PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING 295.
BIR D. TRENCH
(REPEATED AS REQUESTED]
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CONFIDENTIAL.
ADDRESSED COMMONWEALTH OFFICE AS KY TELEGRAM NO. 705 DATED 20TH JUNE,
REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO POLAD SINGAPORE AND PEKING.
MY IMEDIATELY PRECEDINO TELEGIAT: CHEUNG SHA VAN.
DURING THE NICHT 15/16 JUNE AN URBAN SERVICES WORK PARTY REMOVED TWO
PORTRAITS OF HAC, RED FLAGO AND A UANTITY OF PROPAGANDA HATERIAL
FROM A CORNER OF THE PLAYGROUND WHICH HAD BEEN THE FOCUS OF COMMUNIST
DISTURBANCES. THESE ARE NOW HELD IN THE LOCAL POLICE STATION AWAITING
CLAIMANTS.
CO PLEASE PASS IMMEDIATE TO PEKING AS ¡YTEL. 10. 208.
SIR D. TRENCH
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]
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ADDRESSED CO TELEGRAM NO. 784 OF 2011 JUNE REPEATED PEKING AND
PA SINGAPORE.
(368)
PEKING TELEGRAM NO. 418 : CHEUNGSHAWAN,
1. 13TH JUNE.
ABOUT 500 PEOPLE GATHERED IN THE PLAYGROUND, SANG AND CHANTED
REVOLUTIONARY SONGS BUT DISPERSED QUICKLY WHEN ORDERED OUT BY A POLICE
RIOT COMPANY AT 2030. THE PLAYGROUND WAS CLEARED AND LOCKED. FOR THE
NEXT TWO HOURS SMALL CROWDS FORMED NEARBY AND HARASSED POLICE PATROLS,
OCCASIONALLY THROWING STONES AND BOTTLES AND SETTING FIRE TO BASKETS IN
THE ROAD. LATER SIX SMALL GROUPS GATHERED, FOUR DISPERSING OF THEIR OWN
ACCORD WHILE TWO WERE BROKEN UP BY POLICE WITH TWO ARRESTS. AT ABOUT
2300 A CROWD OF ABOUT 300 FORMED NEAR THE PLAYGROUND SINGING AND
CHANTING. POLICE MADE 12 ARRESTS IN DISPERSING THEM, 4 ARRESTED WERE
DETAINED IN HOSPITAL, NONE SERIOUSLY HURT. NO POLICE CASUALTIES. NEITHER
FIREARMS NOR TEAR SMOKE WERE USED. ALL WAS
QUIET BY MIDNIGHT.
2. 14TH JUNE.
BY 2100 A CROWD OF 1,000 HAD GATHERED IN A WIDE CIRCLE AND BEGAN
CHANTING. A POLICE RIOT COMPANY CLEARED AND LOCKED THE PLAYGROUND. AGAIN
SHALL GROUPS HARASSED POLICE PATROLS IN NEARBY STREETS IN THE SAME
PATTERN AS THE PREVIOUS NIGHT THOUGH MORE INTENSIVELY, BY 2330 THE AREA
HAD BEEN CLEARED WITHOUT USE OF FIREARMS OR TEAR SMOKE. 16 PEOPLE WERE
ARRESTED INCLUDING TWO STUDENTS FROM A NEARBY COMMUNIST SCHOOL, 5
RECEIVING MINOR INJURIES. 6 POLICE OFFICERS WERE SLIGHTLY INJURED.
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3. ON 15TH AND 16TH JUNE THE PLAYGROUND WAS LOCKED AT ABOUT
1800 EACH NIGHT AND REOPENED THE NEXT DAY WITHOUT INCIDENT. SINCE
17 JUNE IT HAS REMAINED UNLOCKED AND TROUBLEFREE.
4. A POINT OF NOTE IS THE NUMBER OF MALCONTENTS, ALMOST CERTAIN
NOT COMMUNISTS, WHO TOOK PART IN THE DISTURBANCES. OBVIOUSLY THE
PLAYGROUND HAD BECOME A MAGNET FOR UNRULY ELEMENTS.
5. SEE ALSO MY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING TELEGRAM.
FO PLEASE PASS IMMEDIATE PEKING AS MYTEL 297 AND PA SINGAPORE
(ROUTINE) AS MYTEL 117.
BIR D. TRENCH
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Addressed to Hong Kong telegram No. 418 of 19 June, Repeated for
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Note Your telegram No. 295.