En 66098241761
blinge by L
bd from Hong Kong
D. 16 Mary 67
RIORITY
FROM HONG KONG DATI 2-16TH MAY 1967
R. 16 Mar
61. 09302
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No. 616.
No.
No.
ADDRESSED C.O.
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REPEATED PEKING 227 AND POLAD SINGAPORE 96.
THE LEFT-WING PAPERS THIS HORNING (16 MAY) DEVOTE THEIR:
FRONT PAGES TO THE TEXT OF THE M.F.A. STATEMENT AND TO REPORTS
OF DEMONSTRATIONS OF SUPPORT IN PEKING AND CANTON.
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AFTER
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THE WEN WEI PAO EDITORIAL TAKES THE LINE THAT THE EXPRESSION OF SUPPORT BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT SHOULD REINFORCE THE CONFIDENCE OF LOCAL PATRIOTS, WHO ARE TODAY DEFINITELY NOT ALONE''. GOES ON TO REPEAT THE ALLEGATION THAT THE POLICE ACTION WAS PART OF A PLANNED HOVE AGAINST THE LEFT-WING AND SAYS THAT
Н THE EVENT TRENCH ENGAGED IN SOPISTRY IN DEFENDING 'THE LAW' THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER'. WHO WILL BELIVE THESE ''FINE WORDS''? IT CONCLUDES: ''THE CHINESE PEOPLE ARE NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH. THE CHINESE PEOPLE MEAN WHAT THEY SAY. THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES INSIST ON GOING AHEAD THEY WILL FALL INTO THE GREAT SEA OF THE PEOPLE'S ANTI-PERSECUTION STRUGGLE TRAGIC END''. THE WEN WEI PAO ALSO HAS A COMMENTARY ABOUT AN INCIDENT IN WHICH IT IS ALLEGED TWO REPORTERS OF THE TA KUNG PAO WERE BEATEN UP BY PLAIN CLOTHES SPECIAL AGENTS'' YESTERDAY. THE COMMENTARY SAYS THAT THIS INCIDENT TOOK PLACE JUST AFTER THE FOREIGN MINISTRY HAD ISSUED ITS STATEMENT AND WAS THEREFORE
''THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY THE BRITISH AUTHORIT- PARTICULARLY SERIOUS.
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IES IN HONG KONG USING THEIR RUNNING DOGS AND WAS A PLANNED
AND PREMEDITATED
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PRELUDE TO AN ESCALATION OF THEIR ATROCITIES''
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