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very quickly gather for the purposes of demonstration.
Page 4. lines 3 and 4 The view that young people demonstrated in order to give vent to social frustrations is not shared by this office. It was an over-spill of fervour from the cultural revolution which caused the young people to demonstrate. The vast bulk of the population of Hong Kong was hostile or apathetic to the demonstrators who were very largely Communist.
Page 5, line & It is not known why the attitude of the authorities towards the demands of the demonstrators should be described as "intransigent". The nature of those demands was such that they could not be accepted by the authorities without some degree of abdication of responsibility for maintaining law, order and good government in the Colony. Page 6, line 13 The office in Peking is the office of the British Charge d'Affaires and is not an mbassy. The ostensible reason for the destruction of the office was legal action taken by the Hong Kong Government to close down certain Communist newspapers for the flagrant and repeated publication of subversive material, including the incitement of violence against the police.
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