TNAG-0035-FCO40-71-Relations-with-Macao-1968 — Page 106

Saturday, December 24. 1966

THE END OF MACAO-CONFLICT

1.Gavrilov

For over a month news' was coming from Macoo about the ruthless treatment meted out go the local population by Portuguesa authorities which repeatedly hurled troops and polloe to supp- ress the disturbances. Eight Chinese were killed and oven a hundred injured during violences, according to incomplete dots.

This is how Peking newspapers and the world's longest news sgenotes state the events in Moc50.

Or November 15, the Chinese community of an island belonging to this Portuguese colony on the coast of the South China Sce began demolishing an old school building in order to put up a now, modern school on its place. The Portuguese captain, also the s@ministrator of the island, resisted their actions and throw police gainst the population. About 40 persons were injured. Since then bloody violence lasted in the colony for a moXLA.

It was reported that in those days Chinese troops were moved to the borders with Macao and seven warships of the People's Republic of China blocksded the colony from the sea. The emoll Portuguese garrison was actually paralysed by, thousands of the Chinese who, incidentally, constitute over 90 per cent of the 300,000 population of the colony. An Associated Press co reported from Macao that if Peking wanted to put an end 409-year Portuguese rule. on. Chinese territory, it could do now, without sacrificing a single soldier.

However, a miracle occurred in Macao, as they soy in 2. Peking did not put an end to Portuguese domination. Under en agreement reached between the Portuguese and the Chinese side; the Macao authorities promised that their "police and troops will never again use arms or clubs against the Chinese.”

What is the reason of this condescending attitude of Peking to the Portuguese colonialists who kill Chinese people on their own land?........

Let us turn to facts which throw light on the decision so widely commented in the world press. Every day thousands of tourists arrive on special ferries from Hongkong to Macao, this preserve of Portuguese colonialism. They spend there time in

officially allowed gambling and bawdy-houses end in heroin ond opium dens. The colonial authorities permit in eoso trace

goid and diamonds at black market prices. According to pres ports, about 100,000 Americon soldiers visited Macso in 1965. ey periodically come from South Vietnam for rest in Hongkong. 1 this is highly lucrative to dealers, not a few of whom are

Chinese origin.

-

•

The press wrote much about one of such Chinese, millionstru Ho Ying. This decler hooded the Chinese side in the neoont negoviotions with Joso Nubwo do Carvalho, the Gove..e of Moooo.