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SAVINGRAM
See 1 under!
From:
The Governor, Hong Kong.
Repeated
P.A. to C. in C.F.E.
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To:
The Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Affairs
No.:
Date:
Ref.:
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Peking
Tamsui
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March 9th, 1967.
TS.2/57 III
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1.1.C. MONTALY INTERIAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT
FEBRUARY, 1967
Relations with the C.P.G. were quiet in the sense that there were no major incidents or outbursts against Hong Kong from the C.P.G. However, there was a slight raising of the
› political temperature during the month as a result of increased
criticism by the local left-wing press of the Hong Kong government. This may or may not indicate a change in the C.P.G's. policy and a period of more militant left-wing activity.
2.
Despite its generally more raucous tone, the left-wing press failed to make much of the visits during the month of the two U.S. aircraft carriers Bennington and Kitty Hawk.
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3.
The signing of the agreement by the Governor of Macau on 29th January, admitting guilt on the part of the Macau Government for the disturbances there in December, 1960, was widely acclaimed by communists in Hong Kong as a victory for their colleagues in Macau. During the month under review numerous meetings were held in left-wing organisations in Hong Kong to celebrate the event and classes in communist controlled schools were lectured on its significance as a defeat for the "imperialists". The permanent exhibition of photographs at the C.P.G. owned China National Aviation Corporation (C.N.A. C.) building in the business centre of Hong Kong included a series on display from 2nd to 14th February, depicting the "Macau compatriots struggle against the Macau authorities' On 2nd February, some 200 representatives of various left-wing circles in Hong Kong left for Macau to take part in the victory celebrations there. These celebrations were delayed until 3rd February owing to bad weather and the party returned in the afternoon of that day. Due to the almost aimultaneous arrival of two vessels chartered by the communist party and several vessels berthing on schedule from Macau, some delay resulted in the processing of passengers at the Macau Ferry Wharf. This delay was the subject of an intensive propaganda campaign in the left-wing press for some days during which it was claimed that the processing of left-wing delegation had been deliberately delayed. Local communist circles, particularly the Federation of Trade Unions (F.T.U.) continued to organise trips to Macau. At a briefing session for one of these, members were instructed to take copies of Quotations of Mao Tse-tung with them but to conceal them from the Hong Kong authorities when leaving and entering the Colony. This particular group also visited people who were injured in the riots, saw photographs, listened to lectures, and were shown a film given by the Macau F.T.U. Another group whose programme while in Macau was similar to the above were told by the Secretary of the hospital where the riot victims were treated that "We are killing the Portuguese chickens in order to warn
the British monkeys that the Chinese people are not to be bullied". (According to the Chinese, a monkey can be made to
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