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TO COMMONBRALIN OFFICA
5 OCTOBER 1902,
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PRIORITY HOIN KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 2063
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ADDRESSED CO TELNO 2063 OF 5TH OCTOBER RFI PEKING PA SINGAPORE,
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MY TOLERAN 2057 : CHINESE NATIONAL DAY INCIDENTO.
AT 1000 YESTERDAY THE NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY REQUESTED A MEETING WITH
THE PULITICAL ADVISER TO CONVEY A STATENENT FROM THE NOVA DIRROTOR
LIANG WAI LAN, ABOUT THE INCIDENTS ON THE EVENING OF 3RD OCTOBER,
THE BRETIVA TOOK PLACE AT 1339 MONA DEING REPRESENTED BY PUN TAK
SHING AND TAM KON.
2. PUN BEGAN BY READING OUT LIANA'S STATEMENT, WHICH HAD ALREADY
BREN PUBLISHED IN THE COMMUNIST PRESS COUR TRANSLATION IN MY
TELEGRAM 2064). IN DISCUSSIONS HE MAINTAINED THAT VISNING OCTOBER
1ST DECORATIONS WAS A TRADITIONAL ACTIVITY, THAT CROWDS HAD BEEN
PEACEFUL AND HAD NOT OBSTRUCTED TRAFFIC, AND THAT INCIDENTS WERE
THE RESULT OF POLICE PROVOCATION, HE MADE TWO SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS:
(A) THAT POLICE HAD ATTEMPTED TO FORCE ENTRY (TO THE BANK OF
CHINA BUILDING AND THAT THIS WAS A POLITICAL PROVOCATION'
(3) THAT NONA REPORTERS HAD DERN ASSAULTED EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD
BEEN STANDING APART FROM THE MAIN CROWD AND HAD 1OSITIFIED
THEMSELVES BY SHOWING THEIR PRESS CARDS,
THE POLITICAL ADVISER REJECTED PUH'S INTERPRETATION OF THE
INCIDENTS. THE POLICE HAD INTERVENED ONLY WHEN IT WAS STRICTLY
MHCLSSARY ... HAD USED THIS MICHUM OF FOROS, BY DOING SO THY HAO
PREVENTED MORE SERIOUS INCIDENTS TAKING PLACE. HI AGREED TO INQUIRE
(INTO PUR'S ALLEGATIONS BUT OQUOTED WHETHER THEY MURE WELL POUNDED.
THE POLICE ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED LAS VERY DIFFERENT.
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