CYPHER CAT A
IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 2046
CONFIDENTIAL
Hil 749
COP
TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
2 OCTOBER 1968
p.a.
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ADDRESSED CO TELEGRAM NO. 2046 OF 2
OCTOBER REPEATED PEKING.
1ST OCTOBER CELEBRATIONS IN HONG KONG.
DURING THE DAY, 159 CHINA NATIONAL DAY FUNCTIONS WERE HELD BY COMMUNIST GROUPS SEMICOLON 67 OF THESE WERE UNION FUNCTIONS ATTENDED BY A TOTAL OF ABOUT 18,000 PERSONS. THE SPEECHES CONCENT- RATED ON THE EXCELLENT SITUATION IN CHINA, THE SUCCESS OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, THE IMPORTANCE OF MAO'S THOUGHTS AND THE CONTINUATION OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES IN HONG KONG. THERE WAS NO SERIOUS ATTEMPT TO DEFY THE BAN ON
FIREWORKS DISPLAYS.
2. THE BANK OF CHINA IN CENTRAL DISTRICT WAS STRIKINGLY DECORATED AND ILLUMINATED AND ATTRACTED INCREASING NUMBERS OF COMMUNIST SUPPORTERS DURING THE COURSE OF THE EVENING, RISING BY 10.40 P.M. TO A CROWD OF 1000 PERSONS WHO WERE CHANTING, SINGING, AND CHEERING IN AN ORGANISED MANNER, AND CAUSING SOME OBSTRUCTION TO TRAFFIC. ANOTHER GROUP OF ABOUT 400 ASSEMBLED AT A COMMUNIST-OWNED WATERFRONT PIER IN WESTERN DISTRICT TO WATCH AN IMPROMPTU SONG AND DANCE SHOW ON AN ILLUMINATED LIGHTER LYING ALONGSIDE. OTHER MINOR GROUPS DEVELOPED IN CENTRAL DISTRICT BUT DISPERSED.
IN
RECEIVED ARCHIVES No. 63
3 OCT1968
L
1.1.
BLF.
! 750
/3. NO ATTEMPT
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