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USU OF HONG-KONG AS A U.S. "BASE" FOR THE VIETNAM WAR
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Ca 27 May, 1968, the New China News Agency broadcast on e Pexing Home Service at 16.08 g.m.t. and repeated in their English Language external broadcast at:7.15 g.m.t., the following report of & Chinese Foreign Ministry note which had been communicated by the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China to the British Chargé d'Affaires.
According to the Chinese broadcast, the note contained a strong protest to the British Government against the entry of the U.S. nuclear-powered air-craft carrier "Enterprise" into Hong- Kong, and against "the British Government abetting U.S. imperialism, using Hong-Kong as a base of operations for its war of aggression against Vietnam". It stated the British Government had been demanded that it immediately order the air-craft carrier "Enterprise" to leave Hong-Kong and to put an end to offering Hong-Kong as a logistics centre for the war of aggression against Vietnam.
The note, it was reported, continued by stating that while the U.S. Government had been stepping up its war of aggression against Vietnam, U.S. war-ships directly taking part in that war had Leen visiting long-Kong more frequently than ever and using it as a base for a series of activities. On 24 May, after var operations on the Seas off Vietnam, the U.S. nuclear-powered air-craft carrier "Enterprise", regarded as a plague by the Asian people, together with a batch of other aggressor ships of the 7th Fleet, had again entered long-Kong. Within a period of less than five months since the beginning of 1968, U.S. naval vessels of different typos had used the facilities of Hong-Kong on 146 occasions. 4 of the war-ships concerned had Leen nuclear-powered ones.
The note, the broadcast said, pointed out that in disregard of grave protests by the Chinese Government, and strong opposition from the Chinese inhabitants of Hong-Kong itself, the British Government 4d "become even more unscrupulous in abetting U.S. imperialistic
pressor war-ships going in and out of Hong-Kong to carry out Various activities, and become still more blatant in offering Hong Kong
base of operations to U.S. imperialism for its naval and air 10-ces and a logistics centre in its aggression against Vietnam." To
e..d they had even turned Hong-Kong into a base of operations U.S. nuclear-powered war-shops. They, tile note reportedly stated, only fully exposed the British Geyernment bs ap accomplice of the .....5.A, in its aggression against Vicman, but constituted an even ....... ‘e serious menace to Chinese security and posed a alrecu and
he lives of Chinese inhabitants in Hong-Kong. This "criminal ce"
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