CONFIDENTIAL
Cypher/Cat.A
COLOMBO ΤΟ COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
elno. 283
21 May 1967
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CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed Commonwealth Office telegram No. 283 of 21 May. Repeated for information to Hong Kong and Saving Peking.
Chinese propaganda on Hong Kong.
Official bulletin of Chinese Embassy of 18 May
(received 21 May) carries number of items on Hong Kong, including
commentators" article in "People's Daily" of 15 May and a news item datelined Hong Kong alleging, for example, that:
"All the arrested, including children of ten or so, were brutally beaten up so that many vomited blood or fainted.
"Even the injured were beaten up on the way to hospital by plain clothes men on board the ambulances."
2. Such items offend "Third country rule" (against the publications of foreign Missions carrying objectionable or disparaging references to countries with which Ceylon maintains friendly relations). We are accordingly raising the subject informally with the Ministry of External Affairs later on 21 May.
Commonwealth Office pass Hong Kong M12 and pass: Saving
to Peking.
Mr. Dutton
Sent
Recd.
11282/21 May 1967
11302/21 May 1967
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