TNAG-0011-FCO40-47-Kowloon-disturbances-1967 — Page 97

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Registry No.

DEPARTMENT

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION PRIORITY MARKINGS

Top Secret Secret

Emergency Immediate

Confidential Restricted Unclassified

Priority Routine

*

* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s)

(Date)

Despatched

En Clair. Code Cypher

Draft Telegram to:-

No.............

(Date)

And to:-

Security classification -if any

[Codeword-if any]..

Addressed to

telegram No..........

And to...... PEKING

SECRET

IMMEDIATE

HONGKONG

...dat...).........

(IMMEDIATE) AND ROUTINE TO POLAD SINGAPORE....

AND WASHINGTON

repeated for information to.

Repeat to:--

Peking (I_mediate)

and Polad

m

Singapore and Washington (routine)

Saving to:-

Distribution:-

As for Hong

Kong telegram No.

768. Copies to:-

Saving...................

Your telegram No.768.

Disturbances.

We agree that courses outlined in paragraph 4 of

your telegram under reference are not so severe as

deportation and are open oper

less criticism. But, on the

assessments of CPG involvement in Feking telegram No.626

to Foreign Office and your telegram No.776, we judge it

would be wiser to avoid action against their "officials"

r2 to

in the NCNA, Bank of China and China Resources

Company if at all possible, since this would make it the

difficult for them to disengage from a policy of

It confrontation.

all-out

2. On the other hand, we appreciate that officials

of the NCNA and Bank have been in the forefront of the

anti-Government propaganda campaign which must be

effectively countered if the confidence of the ordinary

people of Hong Kong is to be retained.

SECRET

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