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(C) SOME DECREASE IN THE SIZE AND NUMBER OF COMMUNIST DELEGATIONS.

THERE WERE 59 VISITS TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS CONCERNING

NUMEROUS SUBJECTS INCLUDING REINSTATEMENT, THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS,

POLICE ACTION AT CHEUNG SHA WAN' (CA) ABOVE) AND A PROTEST ABOUT THE

MANNER IN WHICH DELEGATIONS ARE RECEIVED. 43 DELEGATIONS TO

PRIVATE COMPANIES WERE CONCERNED WITH THE REINSTATEMENT OF EMPLOYEES.

APART FROM SOME SLOGAN SHOUTING THE DELEGATIONS WERE ALL ORDERLY

EXCEPT ONE TO THE GAS COMPANY WHICH REFUSED TO LEAVE. BEFORE THEY

WERE EVICTED ONE DELEGATE WAS ARRESTED FOR ASSAULTING A POLICE

CONSTABLE. AT HIS COURT HEARING THREE COMMUNIST SPECTATORS WERE

ARRESTED, AFTER ASSAULTING NEWSPAPER REPORTERS.

(D) TWO FURTHER SHORT LIVED ORDERLY GATHERINGS BY SMALL GROUPS

OF COMMUNISTS AT THE STAR FERRY CONCOURSES IN BOTH HONG KONG AND

KOWLOON ON 10TH JUNE, DURING WHICH MAO SLOGANS WERE CHANTED.

SMALL GROUPS OF COMMUNISTS ALSO CHANTED SLOGANS ON SEVERAL OTHER

OCCASIONS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN THE COLONY.

(E) ATTENDANCE BY GROUPS OF COMMUNIST UNION MEMBERS AND STUDENTS

AT THE SCENES OF LANDSLIDES COUSED BY HEAVY RAINS ON HONG KONG

ISLAND. THEY ASSISTED IN CLEARING DEBRIS, SINGING AND CHANTING

COMMUNIST SLOGANS AS THEY WORKED. ALL WERE ORDERLY AND COOPERATED

WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PERSONNEL ALREADY ENGAGED IN

CLEARANCE AND RELIEF WORK. AT A MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

OF THE FTU IT WAS AGREED THAT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WOULD BE GIVEN

TO THE VICTIMS OF THE RECENT RAINS AND FURTHER REPRESENTATIONS MADE

TO GOVERNMENT FOR THE IMPORTATION OF 'GIFT RICE' AS A RELIEF

MEASURE.

JUNEWERE REMOVED BY POLICE.

(F) INFLAMMATORY ANTI BRITISH POSTERS FOUND AT THREE LOCATIONS ON

HONG KONG ISLAND ON 13TH OF

(G) A 'COMFORT MEETING' FOR UNEMPLOYED WORKERS AT THE FTU WORKERS'

CLUB ON 10TH JUNE AT WHICH A SENIOR COMMUNIST LABOUR LEADER,

WHILE PRAISING THE PROGRESS OF THE 'STRUGGLE LAID GREAT EMPHASIS

ON CONTINUING PEACEFUL UNITED FRONT TACTICS. AT TWO FURTHER PARTIES,

EMPLOYED WORKERS ATTENDED AND WERE LECTURED ON THE NEED FOR THE

CURRENT REINSTATEMENT CAMPAIGN.

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