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(c) an increase in the numbers and a strengthening
of the tone of anti-British posters and slogans on Chinese goods wagons coming into Hong Kong. On some days, straw effigies of His Excellency the Governor have been sent in, hanging from the side of the wagons. Portraits of Mao Tse Tung have been placed on British owned shunting engine which crosses into China daily to pick up the Chinese goods wagons:
(a) the continued display of posters and newspapers
containing inflammatory material, on much the same scale, by a number of concerns under communist control. There has been a continued use of small slogan painting parties, supported by a bodyguard, which have been sent out at night to paint slogans on public buildings and in roadways. These slogans are then photographed by the communists for propaganda purposes, particularly when they seek to suggest that a neutral organisation has joined their forces. They are being obliterated by police as soon as they are discovered:
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an increase in the communist campaign to spread disaffection amongst Government employees. This has taken the form of sending stencilled pamphlets to all members of the clerical grades in Government Service, calling on them to "rise against the British" and to "make a wise choice or be subjected to national discipline". The vast majority of these pamphlets were handed in by recipients to their departmental senior officers. The police force continues to be one of the main targets of this campaign:
an increase in propaganda directed at students. Inflammatory leaflets have appeared in a number of non-communist schools calling upon students to support the workers in their struggle against Government. Allegations have been made also, in the local left-wing press, of the formation of anti-persecution struggle committees in several local neutral schools and in a Government secondary school. There is no foundation for these reports and statements of rebuttal have been issued by headmasters of the schools concerned:
a continuation of the vitriolic anti-British and anti-Hong Kong Government propaganda in the local left-wing press. Attacks have also been made on organisations and individuals which have come out in support of Government, with the warning that, unless they choose the "right side", they will have to suffer the consequences. The explosion of China's first hydrogen device on the 18 June, was hailed by the local communists as an inspiration to continue the struggle:
an anti-British demonstration held on the 18 June on the Chinese side of the border at Sha Tau Kok in which about 500 people, including some 100 members of the P.L.A. and about 60 representatives from the British side of Sha Tau Kok village, participated. This was followed by a meeting held in Sha Tau Kok C.T. to celebrate China's detonation of a hydrogen device; and
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