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QUESTION: Is the aim of the communists just to

break our control in Hong Kong or to get us out?

SIR DAVID TRENCH: I think their aim is to Macao us.

QUESTION: You said that it was only a genuine labour

dispute in one instance, but so long as Peking Daily goes on,

harassing tactics will have to continue. Did it start from Peking

This is very difficult to say.

SIR DAVID TRENCH:

Any answer I give you must be speculative, but I do not think it

did start in Peking. It was just simply ferment of the cultural

These people thought having been forced to gather

revolution.

in groups every night and read the thoughts of Chairman Mao about everybody's 'quty was to struggle and put over to the world the

thoughts of Chairman Mao and the cultural revolution, they

thought they ought to do some thing about it, and started it up..

Having started it up, the cultural revolution idea, communiss

in control, having started it up, Peking could not really very

easily deny them, could not let them down. It feeds backwards

and forwards,

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QUESTION:

The latest moves, not to offer any more

water and so on

SIR DAVID TRENCH: We must get this right. The water

situation is this. That between 1st October and 30th June we buy

a stated quantity of water. Now by 25th June, naturally it does

not finish on the very last day of June, by 25th June we had taken

delivery of the water we were entitled to under the contract, so

they did not cut the water off; they delivered it. Do you

follow me?

QUESTION:

Yes.

SIR DAVID TRENCH: In this arrangement there is a

subsidiary part of the contract which makes it optional, not part

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