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PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE-
Telno. 902 17 July, 1967
UNCLASSIFIED
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 902 of 17 July. Repeated for information to: Hong Kong, POLAD Singapore, Washington.
My telegram No. 888.
(anden fel)
At about 1130 a crowd of demonstrators from NCNA and the major Peking newspapers collected outside this office and began shouting "British Chargé come out",
2. I sent Blishen and Appleyard to the front gate where several protests were read out and handed to them. The police cordon was rather larger than last time and succeeded in keeping the crowd back. The protests concerned the reported arrest of two NCNA correspondents and "five other Chinese correspondents of patriotic papers" on 15 July. As usual the protest demanded apologies, compensation and a guarantee of the normal facilities for the NCNA, punishment of those responsible and assurances that similar incidents would not occur again,
3. The demonstrations were escalated to some extent compared with those on 13 July in that the demonstrators threw tomatoes and scored a few hits on Blishen and Appleyard. one, however, struck a revolutionary interpreter a resounding blow on the head.
Mr. Hopson
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