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IT BECAME NECESSARY LAST NIGHT TO TAKE ACTION TO DISPERSE UNRULY
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AND ROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS BREACH OF THE PEACE
MIGHT RESULT. POLICE RECENTLY ISSUED A WARNING TO A UNION BELIEVED TO
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Thank you for your letter of 23 Xay (BWB 13/7) enclosing a copy of a
letter from Anthony Elliott in Hong Kong querying a passage in the
Commonwealth Secretary's Daspatch of 16 April. As you point out,
paragraph 3 of the Despatch was based on the view I had expressed in my
letter FD 1/1 of 8 Xarch.
2.
I agree with Anthony Elliott that there can be more than one view on
this matter. It is difficult to predict future events in China and I
suppose we cannot totally rule out a further wave of radicalism at some
time in the future which would take observers by surprise as did the
Cultural Revolution. Such an event seems improbable in the next fow
years; and with the departure of Mao from the scene it should become
that much less likely. As for the Cultural Revolution itself, we here do
not how give the more radical elements much chance of taking the
initiative for the rerainder of the movement. We have, however, taken
Anthony Elliott's point and I share your view that no useful purpose is
to be served by continuing the exchange.
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An effective British garrison will be maintained in Hong Kong Whatever
happens in Singapore" Hong Kong's Governor
Sir David Trench said here today. Sir David made a brief stop over at
Subang Air Port after three weeks routine consultation talks with
officials in London on defence and devaluation of sterling.
"I met the Foreign Secretary Mr. Michael Stewart and the Commonwealth
Secretary Hr. George Thomson, and we discussed the implications of the
rundown of British troops in Singapore" he said.
"It has been decided that an effective garrison will be
maintained in Hong Kong whatever happens in Singapore".
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Independence, Sir David said it would not be for a long time due to
China's present difficult mood.
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Mfects of sterling devaluation on the Hong Kong dollar.
"Hong Kong's economy however is better than before because our exports
went up by 22 per cent in the first three months of this bar and our
growth rate increased by 16 point 9 per cent.
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community in spite of last year's rigts in fact the world inous more
about the colony than it used to đồ and the people are
Shired for their stand against the Communists.
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trouble with all sorts of propaganda moves like complaining
inst the salinity of the water".
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I enclose a copy of a letter from Anthony Elliott, in
which he queries the assessment in paragraph 3 of our Despatch
of 16 April replying to the Governor's Despatch No. 239
reporting developments in Hong Kong since June 1967.
We based this paragraph in our Despatch on your letter
to me (FD.1/1) of 8 March. It does not seem that a reply is
expected, and I must leave it to you to decide whether it
would serve a useful purpose to continue the argument.
Yours
Bunny
(W. S. Carter)
For commander.
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16th May, 1968
Dear Bunny,
I hope it is in order to let you know that the Local Intelligence
Committee had some doubts about one passage in Mr.Thomson's despatch HWB
13/7 of 16th April, 1968, commenting on H.E.'s despatch No. 239 of 15th
February; and we though
it might be useful to put them on record informally. I am signing this
letter in the absence of the Secretary through illness.
2. We do not wholly agree with the theory in paragraph 3 of the despatch
that it should be possible to rely indefinitely on the P.L.A. or the
more moderate elements in the Peking leadership to prevent a return to
the extreme policies adopted towards Hong Kong in 1967, The basic point
is surely that the relative strengths of the three major power groups
mentioned cannot be assumed to be static. The extremists, for example,
seemed to have regained a good deal of influence in internal policies
during the last month or two. We agree that factional disturbances in
the Chinese provinces, even including Kwangtung, are not likely to have
a very significant effect on Chinese policies towards Hong Kong. But the
problem really is how far an increase of extremist influence at the
centre in Peking would lead to a recrudescence of extreme and violent
policies here. On this point it seems to us that it would be rash to
make any easy assumptions.
W.9. Carter, Esq., C.V.0.,
Foreign Office,
Downing Street,
London, S.W. 1.
Yours ever,
(Sgd.) Anthony Elliott
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