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IT MAY OTHERWISE BE NECESSARY TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT IS SAID, THEN SEND SUITABLE MATERIAL TO HELP REBUT ANYTHING SERIOUSLY CBJECTIONABLE. WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL IF OTTAVA COULD MEANWHILE CHECK WHETHER MOK HAS YET SUDMITTED THE QUOTE NATIONAL REPORT** WHICH THE CONFERENCE SECRETARY WANTED FROM HIM BY 30 JULY: IT MAY CONTAIN ALLEGATIONS ON WHICH WE CAN COMMENT

NOW.

BOTH ARE

4. FINALLY, MOK IS TWENTY THREE AND NO TWENTY FIVE. GRADUATES WITH RADICAL, ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT VIEWS, TOO OFTEN MISCUIDED AND MISINFORMED TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING USEFUL, AND TOO SOON

1 CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THIS MAY FRUSTRATED IN CONSEQUENCE.

REINFORCE RATHER THAN UNDERMINE THEIR CREDIBILITY AT THE CONFERENCE. NEVERTHELESS, AS WAS SAID BEFORE, THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO SPEAK FOR ANYONE EXCEPT THEIR OWN SMALL GROUP OF DISSIDENTS, NO COLOUR OF OFFICIAL AUTHORITY 03 SPONSORSHIP AND NO CLAIM TO ANY DEPTI! OF KNOWLEDGE OR UNDERSTANDING OF HONG KONG'S PROBLEMS. MOREOVER THE HONG KONG FEDERATION OF STUDENTS PEPRESENTATIVE STUDENT BODY HERE

THE MAJOR

HAS THIS WEEK PUBLICLY DISS-

OCIATED ITSELF FROM THEIR GROUP, WHEN THIS PROPOSED TO FLOUT THE LAW BY ORGANISING A DEMONSTRATION WITHOUT SEEKING THE NECESSARY STATUTORY PERMISSION SEMICOLON EVENTUALLY THE GROUP DECIDED

TO APPLY FOR A PERMIT WHICH WAS GRANTED.

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