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HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO.2222 TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

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2. COMMUNIST EFFORTS IN LABOUR CIRCLES TO PERSUADE UNEMPLOYED

QUOTE SATIKERS INQUOTE TO FIND VORK ARE NOW REACHING A CLIMAX,

THE ENDING OF THE PAYMENT OF QUOTE STRIKE-ALLOWANCES UNQUITE

TO ALL, APART FROM THE AGED, SICK AND THOSE IN PRISON,

CONTIVES TO AFFECT HORALE ADVERSELY AND IT IS EXPECTED THAT.

UNLESS THE COMPAIST HIERARCHY CAN DEVISE A NEV FORMULA IN

THE NEXT FEW VECKS, MANY WILL DESEAT THE VUCUS ONCE THEY

HAVE RECEIVED THEIR FINAL QUOTE STRIKE-PAY UNOUNTE. IN

EDITATIONAL CIRCLES THERE IS AN INCREASING EMPHASIS ON UNITED

FRONT WORK AND ACADEMIC STUDY, ALTHOUGH THE POLITICAL INDOC-

TRINATION OF STUDENTS CONTINUES WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS

ON THE GLORIFICATION OF MAO AND THE QUOTE MOTHER GOLETNY

UNQUÊTE, COMMUNIST NEWSPAPERS HAVE AGAIN SLIGHTLY INPROVEO

THEIR CIRCULATION, 272,500 COMPARED WITH 265.000 LAST MONTH.

WITH A CUT OP 21 PER CENT IN C.P.G. SUBSIDY FOR THE MAIN

COMMUNIST PAPOR, IT IS EXPECTED THAT FURTHER ECONOMIES WILL

DE DEMANDED OF THEIR STAFF. COMMUNIST FILM COMPANIES FACE

SERIOUS FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES AND EXPECT AN OVERALL LOSS

OF DOLLARS FOUR MILLION THIS YEAR SENI COLON WHILST THEY

WISH TO INCREASE PRODUCTION THEY FIND THEMSELVES UNABLE

T 00 30 BECAUSE OF A LACK OF MONEY AND ACTORS. IN COM-

ERCIAL AND BANKING CIRCLES THE MAIN TASK OF THE LOCAL

COMUNISTS IS STILL TO IMPROVE THEIR FINANCIAL POSITION,

IN PUBLISHING CIRCLES LEADERS HAVE EXPRESSED SERIOUS CONCERN

ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES OF CONTROLLING YOUNGER STAFF, MANY

OF WHOM COMPLAIN OF TOO MUCH INDOCTRINATION.

COMMUNIST

PUBLISHERS ESTIMATE A CONTINUING FINANCIAL LOBS THIS YEAR SEMI COLON

A REORGANISATION OF LOCAL DISTRIBUTION TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE

THEIR FINANCIAL POSITION HAS BEEN SUGGESTED.

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