TNAG-0072-FCO40-108-Annual-report-on-the-colony-s-affairs-for-1967-1968 — Page 11

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Peking telegram No. 77 to Foreign Office

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omission of following:

(a) Restatement of demands of Rubber and Plastic

Workers Union. (Page 3);

(b) Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement of

15 May. (Page 4);

(c) People's Daily article of 3 June. (Page 7);

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People's Daily article of 10 June.

(e) People's Daily article of 24 June.

(Page 8); (Page 8);

(f) Peking protest of 26 June. (Page 11).

References to Peking should be made as brief and

generalized as possible and might perhaps take the form that in a number of statements and newspaper articles, Peking Authorities had given general support to Communists in Hong Kong while making plan that they must depend primarily on their own efforts. Reference on Page 13 to ultimatum of 20 August to sácking of this office might be left.

As an incident this is closed, whereas 5 demands are still in theory open.

Foreign Office please pass Priority Hong Kong 42.

Sir D. Hopson

[Repeated as requested]

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