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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (DTD)
18 December 1967
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No. 1877 of 18 December. Repeated for information to POLAD Singapore, Washington and Canberra.
For Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office for JIC.
Following from LIC.
Weekly assessment of the situation as at 18 December 0600 hours follows in two parts (part one only for Canberra).
Part 1.
The principal features of the Communist confrontation during this period have been: -
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(a) A further reduction in the use of true bombs and a marked
decrease in the planting of hoax bombs. 83 hoax and 16 genuine bombs came to notice, one of which exploded in a public telephone kiosk but caused no injury or damage.
(b)
The continuation of political indoctrination including the teaching of Mao's thoughts and also anti-Government activities in Communist controlled schools. However, students at one school, where science classes have been devoted recently to the study of Mao's works, have requested the re-introduction of science subjects. About 240 of the 300 students of the Chuang Wah middle school have resumed lessons on the premises of three other Communist schools.
(c) Further Communist Union meetings at which criticism of
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Government for supplying salinated water and devaluing the local currency, and the study of Mao's works has continued. Emphasis was placed on the need to encourage workers to join the Communist work stoppages or demand wage increases from employers and a number of Unions are conducting surveys of the effect of devaluation on their members. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Trade Unions, it was decided to hold an exhibition of Mao's works and two mass "study group" meetings in the near future.
(d) Continued anti-British propaganda in the local Communist Press with the same main themes of salinity of water and the effects of devaluation. Bomb incidents have been ignored and there has been no overt encouragement for acts of violence.
(e) The comparative quiet of the Border area, broken only by
two minor incidents, one on 14 December at Sha Tau Kok when there were two broadcasts from Chinese territory calling on police officers to defect, followed a single
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