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TO A WAGE PETITION. DURING A FURTHER VISIT TO THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT COMMUNIST UNION MEMBERS HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY HOSTLIE TO OFFICIALS, THEY DISPERSED WITHOUT CAUSING ANY INJURY OR DAMAGE, BUT THREATENED
TO RETURN IN LARGER NUMBERS.
D) A VISIT ON 27TH JANUARY BY SOME 200 'RELATIVES' OF CONFRONTATION
PRISONERS TO THE SOCIAL WELFARE OFFICE TO PROTEST ABOUT ALLEGED
ILL TREATMENT IN THE PRISONS. AN INMATE OF STANLEY PRISON SERVING A SENTENCE FOR 'UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY' COMMITTED SUICIDE EARLIER THE
SAME DAY.
E) A REDUCTION IN ACTIVITY IN COMMUNIST CONTROLLED SCHOOLS, BUT
POLITICAL STUDY STUDY CLASSES AND MAO EXHIBITIONS WILL BE
ORGANISED DURING THE CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
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799NT 79:9NTINUED ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN THE LOCAL COMMUNIST PRESS: POLICE 'PERSECUTION', SALINITY AND GOVERNMENT POLICY CONCERNING
SQUATTERS AND HAWKERS WERE THE MAIN THEMES.
G) CONTINUED MINOR INCIDENTS IN THE BORDER AREA. ON 23RD JANUARY,
A MEMBER OF THE GURKHA FIELD SQUADRON REPAIRING THE BORDER FENCE
RECEIVED A SLIGHT HEAD WOUND, FROM A STONE THRWN BY A GROUP OF TEN YEAR-OLD BOYS IN CHINESE TERRITORY. PLA ON DUTY IN THE VICINITY DID NOTHING TO STOP THIS INCIDENT BUT, ON TWO OTHER OCCASIONS AT
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LO WU, CT, GROUP OF SMALL BOYS THROWING STONES ACROSS THE BRIDGE WERE DISPERSED BY PLA. ON 23RD JANUARY, AT LO WU OFFENSIVE SLOGANS WERE PAINTED ON A BRITISH SHUNTING ENGINE BY RAILWAY
WORKERS APPARENTLY MEMBERS OF THE DEVIATIONIST 'EAST WIND' FACTION: THESE WERE LATER ERASED IN BRITISH TERRØTORY. ON THE FOLLOWING DAY FRESH SLOGANS WERE PAINTED ON THE ENGINE AND THE ENGINE CREW WARNED BY CHINESE RAILWAY WORKERS THAT IF THE
SLOGANS WERE ERASED BY THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES, THE ENGINE WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO CROSS THE BORDER. OFFICIAL PROTESTS HAVE BEEN
MADE TO THE LOCAL BRANCH OF THE NCNA AND MEANWHILE THE ERASURE OF
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THE NEW SLOGANS HAS BEEN DEFERRED UNTIL AFTER THE CHINESE NEW
YEAR HOLIDAYS.
2.
IN PURSUANCE OF THE CURRENT UNITED FRONT POLICY, THE COMMUNIST
LABOUR MOVEMENT IS LAYING GREAT EMPHASIS ON 'COMFORT VISITS'
OVER THE CHINESE NEW YEAR PERIOD: THE GIFTS OF CASH AND FOOD AND
MAY LIDL DERSHADE
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