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Recently the British authorities in Hong Kong went so far as to announce their intention to deport patriotic compatriots. According to news reports carried on June 9th in the South China Morning Post, the spokesman of the British authorities in Hong Kong said on June 8th: "Deportation orders had been served on three persons and similar action was being contemplated against others as a result of the recent disturbances". This measure of the British authorities in Hong Kong to persecute our patriotic compatriots is illegal and is part of their fascist suppression. The Chinese people will not tolerate such crimes by the British imperialism. We lodge the most emphatic and strongest protest against the British authorities in Hong Kong.
If Chinese compatriots in Hong Kong themselves request to return to the interior, the people of the Homeland will welcome them at any time. But the Chinese people and compatriots in Hong Kong will never permit the British authorities in Hong Kong to make false charges and deporting (sic) Chinese compatriots against their will by force. It is the inviolable and inalienable right of the Chinese people to reside in Hong Kong
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This statement was given wide publicity both in the communist press
in Hong Kong and in China.
Attempts to return detainess to China
6.
On 14th March, 1968 it was decided to test C.P.G. reaction
when the two communist film stars, Shek Wai and Fu Yi, were presented
for "release to China" at Lo a on the 14th March. After making some
propaganda capital from the situation, the C.P.G. condemned this move
as a disguised form of deportation, branded it as a "new instance of
persecution" and it became the subject of an official protest to the
H.M.G. Representative in Peking. The protest included a claim that
it was the "sacred right of patriotic compatriots to live and work in
Hong Kong" and demanded that no further attempts should be made to
send the two film stars "to any place outside of Hong Kong on any
pretext against their will".
7.
In view of the past 0.P.G. policy of continuing to accept
prisoners involved in Chinese espionage activities, an approach was
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