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The protest by Leung Wai Lam (text as in my following telegram) followed the usual propaganda lines emphasising the tearing down of posters bearing Mao's Thoughts and "the beating to death" of a prisoner. It adds little that is new and is probably designed mainly for internal consumption by the Communist Party supporters in Hong Kong. However, another dead body has been found in the Gas Works in Kowloon and this could well give renewed impetus to allegations of brutality.

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