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5. Over the last year there have been a series of provocative propaganda broadcasts against the Hong Kong Government particularly in Canton and Kuomintang press, use being made of any trivial incident to belabour the administration of the colony and to demand its retrocession to China. Ministry of Foreign Affairs have now made representations to this Embassy in regard to the case where a hawker in Hong Kong died from injuries received from a policeman. Their case is so feeble that it is emphasised that the Ministry have been under heavy pressure from (Twelve groups of message missing) is that there is spontaneous wave of dissatisfaction amongst the Cantonese at the non co-operative attitude of the Hong Kong authorities. This complaint is fortunately demonstrably untrue and the Ministry have been unable to adduce cases. Moreover, our Press Attache at Canton has obtained a copy of a directive to the editors issued by the Canton Headquarters of Kuomintang inciting them to use the hawker incident to the full in building up campaign for the return to China of Hong Kong and Macao. I yesterday handed translation of this document to the Minister for Foreign Affairs pointing out that its existence hardly supported the claim that Cantonese dissatisfaction was spontaneous. Minister for Foreign Affairs attempted to defend the directive. He promised to take the matter up with the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and in general to continue the efforts of the W.C.P. to prevent incidents from exacerbating the situation.
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