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WERE INFORMED THAT 'THEY MUST SUFFER SOME HARDSHIP TO GAIN

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FINAL VICTORY' ARISING FROM THIS DISSENSION IN THE RANKS THE FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS (F.T.U.) HAS ISSUED DIRECTIVES THAT ALL COMMUNIST UNIONS MUST SEND GROUP LEADERS TO ATTEND A SERIES OF LOCAL MEETINGS TO STUDY THE PRINCIPLES BEBON THE 'RETURN TO WORK" AND MUST ALSO SELECT 'STRIKERS' TO GO

7 CANTON

FOR INSTRUCTION ON THIS SUBJECT AND ON THE REASONS WHY THE COLONY HAS NOT BEEN 'LIBERATED'

(C) VISITS ON THE 9TH AND 10TH BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LOCAL OFFICE OF THE NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY CN.C./N.4.3 AND THE COMMUNIST PRESS CTELEGRAM NO. 433 REFERS) TO COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEES

DETAINED IN PRISON.

(D) DEFIANCE OF POLICE SUURUSION Olu?fici

LOCAL COMMUNIST ORGANISATION

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AS A RESULT OF THEIR INVOLVEMENT

IN STREET INCIDENTS IN MAY 1967. TEOL QIWWYS HAD BEEN IMPOSED IN LIEU OF DEPORTATION ORDERS RECOMMENDED BY THE COURTS. (E) CONTINUED 'UNITED FRONT' WORK IN THE NEW TERRITORIES BY PICNIC GROUPS FROM COMMUNIST ORGANISATIONS IN THE URBAN AREA AND ASSISTANCE TO SQUATTERS AT CLEARANCE SITES ON HONG KONG

ISLAND.

(F) PROPAGANDA IN THE COMMUNIST PRESS WHICH CENTRED ON THE 'VICTORIOUS' VISIT TO PRISONERS BY NCNA OFFICIALS, DEMANDS FOR THE RELEASE OF ALL CONFRONTATION PRISONERS AND CONDEMNATION OF 'THE SUPPRESSIVE USE OF POLICE SUPERVISION PROMPTED BY GOVERNMENT'S INABILITY TO EFFECT DEPORTATION'. (SEE CDD ABOVE). GOVERNMENT WAS ALSO DENOUNCED FOR 'KIDNAPPING' THE VICE CHAIRMAN OF AN ANTI-PERSECUTION STRUGGLE COMMITTEE CA.P.S.C.) (SEE PARAGRAPH

2 BELOW), AND FOR ENCOURAGING 'U.S./CHIANG ELEMENTS BY ACCEPTING THE REGISTRATION OF 'FREE' TRADE UNIONS (SEE PARAGRAPH 1CE) OF

TELNO 447).

CG) THE CONTINUED COMPARATIVE CALM OF THE BORDER. A TRAVELLER RETURNING FROM A COMMUNE NEAR THE BORDER IN CHINESE TERRITORY REPORTED THAT RESIDENTS WERE RECENTLY INFORMED OF AN INSTRUCTION FROM PEKING TO THE EFFECT THAT VILLAGERS MAY CONTINUE TO CARRY OUT PROPAGANDA IN THE AREA BUT MUST AVOID CREATING FURTHER INCID-

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