KUNG.F. 316
SECRET
Copy No. 1
25
SAVINGRAM
From:
The Governor, Hong Kong.
Repeated:
To:
The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
P.A. to C. in C.F.E.
46
Peking
43
Tamsui
17
No:
522
Manila
C. in C. F.E.
13 M/179
Date:
November 20th, 1967.
Ref:
TS 2/57 III
1.
L.I.C. MONTHLY EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT
JUNE, 1967
Information available in Hong Kong during June indicated that there was no major change in the state of the revolutionary parties in Kwangtung Province, which still appeared unable to unite
The Army remained to form a provincial revolutionary committee.
in control of the province, but at times was reluctant to take action to stop fights between various factions. Red Guards (R.G.s), particularly those visiting Canton from outside the province, behaved in an increasingly disorderly and violent manner and tales of murder and robbery were quoted by many travellers arriving in the Colony from that city.
2.
Reports of opposition to Mao were received from other travellers from the province. These reports were most numerous from Swatow and surrounding counties, whilst the existence of an "Anti-MAO Army" and an "Escape from MAO, Save our Nation Army" were mentioned by travellers from the Waiyeung area (on the borders of Huishi and Huitung Counties).
3.
The People's Daily editorial for 3rd June which called on Chinese in Hong Kong to resolutely repel British imperialist provocations set the tone for propaganda in Kwangtung Province concerning the confrontation in Hong Kong. A meeting attended by about fifty thousand people was held in Canton to mark the publication of this editorial, and during the remainder of the month demonstrations continued in Canton and other areas in Kwangtung.
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The Chinese people were given widely exaggerated accounts of the progress and success of the communist confrontation in the Colony;
at a meeting in Canton on the night of 14th June a speaker told a mass meeting that the Hong Kong Government had stepped up
Following this their acts of violence and had used poison gas.
However,
travellers reported that at a meeting in Swatow on 19th June Red Guard speakers called for the liberation of Hong Kong. official speakers at the meeting stated that liberation was a matter for the C.P.G. and that Hong Kong would be taken back when the time
According to and opportunity presented itself, but not before. other travellers the authorities in Tungkuan County discouraged the display of wall posters calling for the liberation of Hong Kong on the grounds that this was an international affair and not the direct concern of the people.
5.
Following the call by the People's Daily of 24th June for workers and patriots in Hong Kong to use their "iron fists" in the course of confrontation, loudspeakers at Canton railway station called on travellers returning to Hong Kong to join the struggle. On the same day street loudspeakers in Canton gave accounts of the events in Hong Kong on the day before (the raid on the Rubber and
/Plastic
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