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students from the school of which the arrested Chairman is head-

master and four K.W.C.K.V.P.C. Committee members assembled outside

and, while chanting the thoughts of MAO, demanded the Chairman's

release. Consequently, the four Committee members were arrested,

charged and convicted, while the Chairman's case was adjourned to the

6th June (when, incidentally, he jumped bail). Since the 12th May,

various left-wing organisations have sent comfort groups to the Walled

City to express sympathy and the Committee has formed a "struggle

committee" in line with other left-wing organisations in the Colony.

On the 15th Lay, the United Nations Association of Hong Kong (U.N.A.H.K.) (claimed membership: 13,000; paid up membership: 3,000)

sent a telegram to Mr. J. Johnson, Member of Parliament for Kingston-

on Hull, West, requesting that efforts be made to send a Trade Union

Congress (T.U.C.) delegation to Hong Kong to investigate the real

cause of the disturbances in Kowloon. The U.N.A.H.K. stressed in

its cable that the "disturbances were not politically inspired but

were due to an economic crisis in the Colony" 9

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On the 30th lay, MA Man Fai (7456/2429/6540), Exeucitve

Secretary of the U.N.A.H.K., disclosed that Mrs. Elsie Elliott, on

of the six alternating Chairmen, had tendered her resignation to the

Association on the grounds of pressure of work. Mrs. Elliott is

standing as an independent candidate in the Urban Council Elections

due to be held on 7th June(L.I.C. Internal Intelligence Report for

February, 1967, paragraph 15 refers). (She was in fact elected.)

The third Russian ship for repair by the Hong Kong and

Whampoa Dock Company Limited (L.I.C. Internal Intelligence Report

for April, 1967, paragraph 10 refers) arrived on the 2nd May and

the fourth on the 21st May. Work on the other ships had not yet

finished and there were four ships under repaid at the end of May.

Contracts for the repair of two further ships have been signed but

it is not known when they are expected.

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