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In the event of civil disturbance the
C.D.O.s will probably have to drop everything except their primary political task. In the command exercise last autumn notional ad hoc
arrangements were made for C.D.0.s to report public opinion and to be briefed on the messages they should attempt to spread abroad in their Districts. Something of this sort is no doubt required but we have not worked out a scheme. The reporting of opinion and feelings and the spreading of information and messages should be a speeded up and intensified version of our normal routine. More thought needs to be given to methods of briefing and to the use that can be made of C.D.O. channels
in addition to those of D.I.S. and Radio Hong Kong. Thought is being given to the mechanics of all this. In times of emergency the teleprinter net work should be of great help though it is in just such times that it will be difficult to get transmitting time for departmental traffic.
RESETTLEMENT ESTATES AND AREAS
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The role of C.D.O.s in resettlement estates and areas has not been clearly thought out and it does present special problems in view of the extensive responsibilities of the Resettlement Department. The only point that is clear is that C.D.0.s are not to regard themselves as in any sense excluded from these
areas. It has been possible to leave this problem for some time because it is only in Wong Tai Sin District, where the C.D.O. has only just been appointed, that resettlement completely dominates all other types of development.
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