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Copy No. 17
SAVINGRAM
From:
The Governor, Hong Kong
Repeated
To:
The Secretary of State
for Commonwealth Affairs
P.A. to C. in C.F.E. British Eigh Commissioner
Kuala Lumpur
No:
60
Date:
January 18 th, 1967.
Peking
Manila
Tokyo
Tamsui
Ref:
TS 2/57 III
Bangkok
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L.I.C. MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
DECEBER, 1966
ly savingram No. 2890.
SUMMARY
1.
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 531
24 JANIO/
HWB 13/4
Relations with the C.P.G. remained basically quiet despite the renewed accusation that the Colony is being used as a ́U.S. base. Events in Macau caused concern during the month. Internally the situation was quiet.
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2.
As mentioned in last month's report (L.I.C. report for November 1966, paragraph 10 refers) the demonstration in Macau, arising from the Taipa Island incident on 15th November 1966 continued over the first few days in December and led to riots on 3rd December which brought in their wake a further series of demands on the Macau government by local Macau communists and later by the Kwangtung Provincial People's Council. After much procrastination, these and the earlier demands were accepted in principle by the Macau Government, and several meetings were held in China between representatives of the C.P.G. and Lacau government to discuss the exact terms of an agreement which had not, however, been reached by the end of the month. At Appendix is a more detailed summary of the information now available in Hong Kong about the course of events in Macau,
3.
It is evident that the C.P.G. intend to press for the elimination of all forms of K.M.T. representation in Macau. If they succeed it is possible that there may be an increase of K.M.T. activities in Hong Kong. So far there has been no evidence of any exodus of K.M.T. personalities from Macau to Hong Kong, either legally or illegally. Immediately following the riots, and mainly because of the curfews, there was a marked decrease in the number of persons travelling from Macau to the Colony- and this held good also for the reverse journey. From the 11th December onwards the numbers of Chinese travelling either way between the two territories increased gradually but even by the end of the month traffic had not returned to normal. Between 11th and 14th December unusually large numbers of Portuguese families arrived in the Colony, with heavy baggage. A relatively small proportion subsequently departed for Portugal, the remainder eventually returning to their homes in Macau.
4.
From the 4th December onwards, small groups of oyster farmers from British Territory, rarely exceeding twenty, returned to work on the No. 5 oyster bed, Deep Bay (L.I.C. report for November, 1966, paragraph 6 refers). They met no interference from Chinese territory until the morning of 18th December, when some forty communist fishing craft arrived on the bed and placed
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