TNAG-0071-FCO40-107-Disturbances-in-Hong-Kong-propaganda-1969 — Page 29

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8.B.C. Loverage of Hong Kong

You may already know that from the overnor downwards, the Nor kong Government has for sume time Dann extremely irritatad by the 9.8.C. radio and television

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Keng affairs. This stems fram the

reporting isorders last summer and it recently culminated in egsonal representation from the overnor to Lord #11.

I have tried to obtain some evidence as to the grounds for these complaints but have been unable to discover anything specific apart from the fact that violent exceptis

taxe! to the B.A.C. '24 Tours' prograume on bony none televised a few months ago. It is all largely a CASO

sensitivity on the part of people here and 4 typical of understanding that correspondents write what they * what they are told to write by those on the spot.

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