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to Kowloon railway station at 3 p.m. There he announced to those assembled that the Mission had been postponed and the crowds there- after proceed to disperse. It now appears that feelings of frstration, generated by concealment of the true facts of the situation, were aggravated during the dispersal by false rumours that the Mission had actually arrived and was being detained by the Police in the border area. It also appears that a group of groups in the procession had come prepared to cause trouble, and thereupon proceeded to do so. This whole regrettable incident would not have occurred had the organisations concerned been given the truth by the Federation of Trade Unions concerning the proposed visit of the Mission; more especially information on Saturday, between 11.30 am..and 3 p.m., that, as advised from Canton, the proposed visit had been postponed and that the party would not, in fact, arrive.
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All is quiet. Ends.
Copy to:-
D.II
C.R.O.
Foreign Office
Colonial Office
Mr. A.R. Adair Mr. Oakshott
Mr.
J.D. Anderson
H.M. Ambassador for the United Kingdom in Dublin
U.K. High Commissioner in Salisbury
U.K. Embassy, Washington
U.K. Delegation to the
United Nations New York
Mr. R.H. Belcher
Mr. R.W.D. Fowler
FAR EASTERN DEPT. F.2180/50
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