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REGISTRY No. 51
29 AUG 1969
CONFIDENT IAL
HKKIIR
Hong Kong Dept.
PA on internal briefing file
Round-Up for the Permanent Under-Secretar
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29.
8.69.69
August 1969.
Hong Kong
General Internal Security Situation
There have been minor incidents on the Hong Kong/China border
involving stone throwing and the discharge of firework rockets at
one police post.
On 5 and 6 August there were attempts by the crews of two
unarmed junks and a few sampans from the Chinese mainland to
challenge British authority in Colonial coastal waters. These
incidents were concerned with the pursuit of some illegal
immigranta into Hong Kong and with fishing rights in Colony waters.
They appear to have been entirely spontaneous and without any
official Communist support and are now regarded by the Hong Kong
authorities as closed.
The situation in the Colony has otherwise remained quiet and
the local Communist leadership has been mainly concerned with
preperations for the celebration of Communist China's National Day
on 1 October.
Sino-British Relations
There have been no fresh developments regarding the position
of Mr. Grey, the Reuters correspondent detained in Peking. It
is hoped that Mr. Grey will be freed soon after the last of the
eleven Communist news workers imprisoned in Hong Kong has been
released on 3 October. Meanwhile, the Governor has expressed
some anxiety that the Chinese Government may be intending to use
the position of the other British subjects detained in China to
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