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INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (0.A.G.)
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17 July, 1967.
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IMMEDIATE SECRET No. 1054.
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My telegram No. 1049.
Hong Kong Confrontation.
On Sunday 16 July the police carried out two pre- planned raids on union premises in Kowloon and Hong Kong. During the course of these raide information was gathered that a large meeting was to be held for that afternoon in the workers
believed to club of the Federation of Trades Unions (F.T.U.),
be the nerve centre of the All Circles Anti-Persecution Struggle Committee (A.C.A.P.S.C.). Accordingly an operation was mounted The police achieved at short notice against this major target. their objectives in every case without violent resistance although improvised weapons were found in considerable numbers. It was obvious that almost complete surprise had been achieved. A total of 539 people were arrested and are now being screened. It is already known that they include a number of senior union
Examination of officials who hold high ranke in the A.C.A.P.S.C. documents seized is expected to yield considerable profit also. I have declared the premises of the F.T.U. workers club and it associated buildings to be a closed area to prevent the reoccupation of the club until the detailed search is complete.
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These unions are A total of eighty-six
On Hong Kong Island the targets were the Taikoo Dock Workers Union Welfare Centre(TDWJ), the Taikoo Sugar Refinery Workers Union (T.S.F.W.U.) and the Metal Industry Workers Union (M.T.W.U.), all in one block in Shaukeiwan. among the most militant in the Colony. people were arrested including at least three senior union officials. Complete surprise was achieved; resistance though some delay was imposed by locked steel grilles
The only one of which had to be blown out by army personnel. casualty was a man who fell from the building while trying to escape.
there was no
3. In Kowloon the planned target was the Motor Transport Workers Union (M.T.W.U.) Kowloon. Motor Bus (K.M.B.) branch. Communist influence in K.M.E. has always been very strong and dismissed union members have played a prominent part in the
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