ARCHIVES No.31
8th May, 1967
-9 MAY 1967
Follo
FD1/1
Dear Wilson,
|
In his letter Fed.150/402/01 of the 24th January Carter wrote to Bolland
about a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting on the
principal developments in the Colony over the last
18 months or so.
Can you say when you will be in a position to
let us have any comments that you wish to be
included in our reply to the Governor?
высновы
Yours when
D.C. Wilson, Esq.,
(A.W.Gaminara).
Far Eastern Department,
Foreign Office.
SECRET
Reply sent
To
p.c.
RESTRICTED
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
(The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
Cypher
D. R. 6th
6th May, 1967.
0640Z
RECEIVED IN
ARCHIVES No. 31
- 8 MAY 1967
西小
ра
pa 104.4.
14/2
RESTRICTED No. 551.
Addressed to Commonwealth office.
Repeated
11
Peking No. 193 (S. of S. please pass).
12
My telegram No. 547.
Kowloon Walled City Incident.
The facts are that a demolition party (of about 90 persons) from
Resettlement Department accompanied by about 70 police went on the
morning of 4th May to Lung Shing Road which borders on the walled city
to demolish a number of sheds etc. which had been erected illegally just
outside the limits of the walled city by residents of the walled city.
Similar structures have been demolished on a number of occasions in that
area over the years. No warning was given of this action as Resettlement
Department have found that to give warnings increases the difficulties
of dealing with the problems of illegal structures.
2. The demolition was resisted by force by Wong Chun Ping (Chairman of
the unregistered Kowloon Walled City Kaifong Welfare Promotion
Committee) and other residents, They received no support, despite
requesting it, from residents of a nearby resettlement estate. Wong was
arrested when he attempted to hit a police inspector with a brick, and a
woman, Chan Lin, was arrested when she assaulted a police- woman with a
stick. When arrested, Wong shouted "watch out for another Macao" The
demolition was completed despite continued opposition.
3. Subsequently, nine members of the KWCKWPC attempted to see Wong at
the Kowloon City Police Station, but only his wife was allowed in.
Thereafter a group of four adults and 22 children from the school of
which Wong is headmaster formed up at the police station, demanding the
release of those arrested and chanting quotations from Mao's works. One
of then handed in a letter protesting at the demolition and the arrests.
The group was told to disperse and when it did not do so, was arrested.
The children were released and the adults charged with disorderly
conduct. They were remanded on bail until 29th May. Wong and Chan were
released on bail and their cases will be heard on 25th and 18th May
respectively.
(Passed as requested)
/Distribution
RESTRICTED
RESTRICTED
Distribution
H.K. WID'C' I.G.D.
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
Copies also sent to:-
Foreign Office - F.E.D.
Commonrealth
Office
News Dept.
RESTRICTED
Cypher
"1
CONFIDENTIAL
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
D. 6th May, 1967. R. 6th
06302
RECEIVED IN
ARCHIVES No.31
- 8 MAY 1967
FD!/
PRIORITY
CONFIDENTIAL No. 248.
Addressed to Canberra No. 26.
Repeated
" Commonwealth office.
H
да
M
H Resident Commissioner Gilbert and Ellice
Islands Colony No. High Commissioner Western Pacific
No. 306.
Η
Ħ
305.
(8. of 8. please
pass to all).
1
Your telegram No. 725.
Nauru Strike.
Labour Department here at present have their hands full with industrial
disputes and would find it difficult to spare an officer to go to Nauru
immediately. In any case, as the situation there now appears to be quiet
and the dispute is likely to be transferred to Hong Kong, there would
seem to be every advantage in keeping the Labour Officer who has visited
Nauru here for the time being. Possibility of sending an officer to
Nauru at a later stage could be reviewed in the light of developments.
2.
We are similarly reluctant to let the two policemen referred to in my
telegram No. 532 depart for Nauru on 9th May, as Australian Trade
Commissioner has requested. Intention is that they should be seconded to
the Nauru Force for a period of one year for normal duty. But to send
them now would certainly suggest that Hong Kong Government were actively
intervening in the dispute on the side of the B.P.C. and would tend to
aggravate difficulty of dealing with the repatriated strikers here. We
have explained this to the Australian Trade Commissioner and said that
we would review the problem again in the light of developments here
during the next week or 80.
(Passed to D.3.4.0. for Canberra, and 0.E.I.C. and Western
Pacific as 0.0. (D.T.D.) telegrams Nos. 107 and 194 respectively)
CONFIDENTIAL
/Distribution
CONFIDENTIAL
Distribution
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
P.I.O.D.
H.K. WID 'C'
Copies also sent to:-
Commonwealth Office
Foreign Office
E
E.G.D.
F.E. & P.D.
Econ. Adviser
J.R.D.
Defence Dept.
S.E.A.D.
F.E.D.
Overseas Labour Adviser
CONFIDENTIAL
INWARD TELEGRAK
TO THE COMKON FALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
RECEIVED IN
|ARCHIVES No.31
- 8 MAY 1967
FD 1/1
En clair
D. 6th May, 1967. E. 6th
0600Z
PRIORITY No. 547
Addressed to Commonwealth office. Repeated
* Peking No. 190.
pa
10
L
The local left wing press this morning (6th May) give prominence on
their Hong Kong newa pages to reports and short commentators' articles
about an incident which took place near the Kowloon walled city on 4th
May. The incident occurred when police and Resettlement Department
workers destroyed illegal structures near but outside the walled city.
Residents of the walled city resisted and some were arrested (including
the Chairman of the Walled City Kaifong Committee). All have now been
released on bail.
2. The line taken by the left wing press is that this incident was
deliberately created by the British Authorities and that if they "dared
to ignore the just demands of the residents of the walled city and dared
to continue to create incidents and violence, then they will be lifting
a stone only to drop it on their own feet". The demands put forward
are:
(1) to release the residents and their representatives
who were unreasonably arrested;
(2)
to compensate the residents of the walled city for all their losses, and
(3) to guarantee that henceforth they will not go to
the walled city to commit violence and that no such incidents will occur
again. The Wen Wei Po refers to these demands as "preliminary demanda".
Distribution
H.K. WID 'c' I.G.D.
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION
Copies also sent to:-
Foreign office Commonwealth
office
F.E.D.
News Dept.
Ed (1676)
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN.
Minutes.
RECEIVED IN
ARCHIVES No.31
1 8 APR 1967
FD1
Copy of "NEW TIMES
NO.12
MATZ. 22h3, 1967.
The interesting example of
the sour of thing
составот
owraliste are
اهاها
about Hong Kong. TRD (K) R= p.a. B 2/4
the
Rushai
I write
-%
ENTERED COPY:
+
FD1/1C-(1987)
F.E.J. M.
See while on
you may wish I ente
раде
туша
V. in trustly,
work Ruty.
Jon
Mr.
Mr.
to extrant
env
31-32.
NEW TIMES
+
50th Anniversary of the February Revolution
Marshal Sudets on Soviet-Bulgarian Relations
Dynamics of Modern Capitalist Production
Hongkong Paradoxes
Kiesinger's Bonn, by Leon Szulczynski
12
MARCH 22
1967
A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS
Red
Square, Moscow.
NEW TIMES
Founded 1943
A weekly joumel of world alades. published in Russian, English, French,
Derman, Spanish, Polohi and Coach by Tred, Moscow.
For
n-language adetions cat with the Russian
No. 12
MARCH 23, 197 (Russian edition March 17)
Contents
1 With Pride and Confidence
3 Standing by Vietnam
Statement by the South Vietnam
National-Liberation Front
6 February 1917-The Overthrow of
Tsordom
Ivan Aluf
9 The Soviet Union and Bulgaria
Air Marshal V. A. "Sudets "Izvestia" Jubilee
11
12 The French Elections: Political
Polarization
Boris Vermin 13 Can You Spare 10 Billion?
Antonin Petrina
14. Kiesinger's Bonn
Leon Szulczynski 17 Dynamics of Modem Capitalist
Production
A. Milelkovsky 20 The King and the Arabs
G. Drambyanis 23 Sukorno Problem-Solved?
Alexander Vacotou
24 On the Other Side
Lev Lyubimov 29 International Noter 31 Hongkong Paradoxes
Vladimir Perventaev 33 Bible for Hawks (Book Review)
G. GerasimiH"
16 People in the News
10 From the Mail-Bog
34 World Events
IN
With Pride and Confidence
IN THIS, their jubilee year, the Soviet people look back on the past
with pride-reliving the stormy days of preparation for the world's
greatest revolution, remember- ing all the effort and herolim that went
into the upbuild- ing of their country. These thoughts of the past
mingle with thoughts of the present and future to produca a feel- ing of
confidence in the continued advance of socialisms and communism.
It is probably ■ mere coincidence that the elections to the Supreme
Soviets of the Russian Federation and of eight other Union Republics
were held exactly fifty years after the people of Russia overthrew the
tsariat autocracy, But there is something symbolic in that coincidence.
March 12, 1917, and March 12, 1967. The two dates can be regarded as
landmarks on the path traversed by our people, from the Petrograd Soviet
of Workers and Soldiers Deputies to the Supreme Soviet elections. The
years in between have been crowded with significant events and changes.
The February Revolution was the prelude to the Great October Socialist
Revolution, which transformed the country from a backward into an
advanced one and placed It in the vanguard of progress.
This year's election campaign was marked by high polit- ical activity.
The numerous meetings at which the candi- dates of the Communist and
non-Party bloc met the voters demonstrated anew the firm unity of Party
and people. Party and government leaders reviewed the country's progress
since the previous elections, analyzed the Interna- tional situation and
the foreign policy of the U.S.S.R. in the present complex circumstances.
In their organizational and economic activities, the Party and
government have in recent years concentrated on raising national living
standards. That la only natural. For, as Leonid Brezhnev told an
election rally on March 10, "in the final analysis, the victory of the
Great October Socialist Revolution and the building of sociallam in our
country-once the people had been freed of explo!- tation and
oppression-were directed at creating all the opportunities for a free,
prosperous, cultural and Interest- Ing life, a life worthy of man and
all that great word stands for."
+
The Soviet Communist Party and government have in recent years carried
uut a number of measures towards that end. The following are a few
examples out of a longer Mat:
higher wages for 20 million people engaged in the
35 Supplement
service industries;
י
pensions for collective farmers;
higher minimum pensions for invalids and additional grants to war
invalids and families of men killed in the war;
price reductions on a number of consumer goods:
■ 6.5 per cent annual increase in per capita Incomas in 1965-66;
a nearly 20 per cent Increase in retail sales over these two year;
nearly 22 million people moved into new homes or Improved their housing
conditions;
two free days a week for nearly 2 million people, with the shift to the
new schedule to be completed in the main this year.
What capitalist country can match that record? Even In the richest
cxpitalist countrie we see artificial contraction of consumer de- mand,
wage freezing, curtailment of housing programmes, reduction of welfare
expenditure. Of course, the Soviet people still have to me- complish
much to assure further development of the economy, but there can be no
doubt that they will successfully cope with the task.
The election campaign was the occasion also for reviewing the Soviet
government's activity on the international scene. Socialism, enjoys
Increasing authority and prestige. Soviet diplom- soy, as that of other
socialist countries, le skil- fully solving the problem of assuring
favoura ble international conditions for the building of socialism and
communism in our countries. This la especially important considering the
complex international situation and the increased tension caused by
activization of the Imperialist forces.
The recent efforts to work out an agreed in- fernational policy of the
socialist countries have produced good results. Events have prov- ed
that the Warsaw Treaty can play a positive part in European adɗairs. The
Soviet Union's relations with other socialist countries, based on
revolutionary solidarity and mutual respect, are becoming ever clower
and effective. At the same time, the Peking splitters are finding
themselves more and more isolated,
Relations with capitalist countries evincing a desire for friendship and
co-operation with the U.S.S.I. are Improving too. The Soviet Union has
consistently followed policy of peaceful co-existence of states with
differing social sys- tems. The record of the past few years shows that
that policy can be beneficial to both sides.
The Soviet Union has made a great contribu- tion to world peace and
security, and that has told on the new trends in Western Europe, where
there is a stronger urge for a détente and good-neighbour relations with
the soci■ilst part of the continent. The realization is gaining ground,
the Soviet leaders emphasized in their election speeches, that Europe
can solve Its security problem by its own efforts.
This does not mean that we can afford to disregard the many dangers to
peace. There ja grave concem throughout the world over what is happening
in Vietnam, where U.S. Imperial- ism continues to escalate its
aggression. With blatant cynicism the United States government continues
to extend its operations, bringing new areas in the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam into the orbit of its air attacks and barbarous artillery
bombardments. In this situation, the Soviet Union has firmly warned that
escalated aggression in Vietnam will be countered by Increased all-round
assistance to the herple peo- ple of that country. Let no one doubt that
the Soviet people will remain true to their internR- tionalist duty and
will not leave the Vietnamese in the hurch.
Only a year has passed since the Twenty- Third CPSU Congress which
mapped out plans for the continued building of communism. But even in
this brief span the Soviet Union har made great strides in economic and
cultural development. The new five-year plan is being successfully
carried out; economic manage- ment is being perfected. The results of
this work are there for all to see.
With pride in their past and firm confidence in the future, the Soviet
people are advancing to the half-centenary of their great Revolution,
NEW TIMES TH
Y
public protest against Pentagon war crimes. In
a
Standing by Vietnam mid-February, 100 M.P. tabled resolution
TH
HE U.S. imperialists continue to escalate their aggression in Southeast
Asia, sów- ing death and destruction on Vietnam. Their total disregard
of international law, their brazen challenge to world opinion, their
reliance on brute force are reminiscent of the days and methods of
Hitler.
The Vietnamese are fighting with exemplary courage in defence of their
land, repelling the aggressor on both sides of the 17th Parallel. It is
a hard struggle, requiring the exertion of every ounce of energy. More
than a million South Vietnamese have been killed, wounded or consigned
to concentration camps. The Demo- cratic Republic of Vietnam has
suffered heavy Josses from the air bombings. The U.S. imperial- ists are
applying the naziscorched-earth imatics. Vietnam's "fortitude has won it
respect and admiration throughout the world. Now every- one realizes
that this is not merely a local war, that the International situation,
the way things are likely to shape out in the world, hinges on what
happens in Vietnam. Its people have the support and sympathy of all
anti-imperialists. Defence of Vietnam has become a mass moves ment in
every country, the United States In- cluded, and is assuming diverse
forma.
Standing by the Vietnamese are numerous public organizations, millions
of men and wom- en, many governments, An International Soli- darity Week
with Vietnam began on March 19. Initiated by the Afro-Aslan Solidarity
Or- ganization, one of its purposes is to collect funds to help the
Vietnamese,
Response has come from every continent in the form of protest meetings
and demonstra tlone. And as on previous occasions, the Soviet people are
especially active In this campaign. There have been máss meetings in
support of Vietnam's just cause in Moscow and Leningrad, in the capitals
of all the Union Republics and in major Industrial and cultural centres.
The Soviet people unanimouly approve the policy of their government in
rendering Viet- ham all-round economic and military assistance, and are
themselves giving the Vietnamese mor- al, political and material aid.
The Soviet Aid to Vietnam Committes is actively supported by millions of
Soviet citizen..
Reports of an expanding solidarity movement come from other countries
too. In Britain, where the government has acquiesced in the American
aggression, there has been widespread
NEW TIMES " M".
condemning the American attacks on North Vietnam. Money for the Vietnam
relief fund is being collected in every part of the country. Many are
donating blood for Vietnamese hospi- tals. The Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament has announced that the chief demand in this year's Easter
march will be immediate cessation of the American aggression and the
British government's complete dissociation from Ame- rica's shameful
policy.
In Australis, leading trade unions are demanding an end to the U.S.
aggression and are fully behind the dockers and seamen who have refused
to load and man the Boonaroo and Japarit, which were to deliver bombs
and other military supplies to South Vietnam.
In France, the General Confederation of La- bour has declared its "full
and unqualified sup- port for the International Solidarity Week." In
Yugoslavia, university students and instructors have collected 17,000
signatures to a petition urging U Thant to do everything possible to end
the aggression against Vietnam. In the German Democratic Republic there
have been mass ral- lies in support of Vietnam at factories, offices and
schoolk. Protests have come also from Italy, where a huge solidarity
rally was held in Flori ence. Many more facts could be added to this
Hist.
International women's, trade union, youth, religious and other
organizations have appealed for respect of the Vietnamese people's
rights and for an immediate halt to the American ag- gression. There is
widespread protest in Asia and Africa, where the suffering of the
Vietna- mese is especially keenly felt. In both conti- nents there is
growing indignation at American Imperialist brutality.
Beyond all doubt, the International Solidarity Week will multiply the
strength of the Vietna- mese patriots and will Increase the political
and moral isolation of the American aggressors. Of course, one
Solidarity Week will not bring the war to an end, or compel the
Americans to withdraw and allow the Vietnamese to work out their own
future. But what is done in this week will be the foundation for
world-wide unity of all the foress opposed to aggression and war.
America's policy of escalation has brought the Vietnam war to a highly
dangerous point. And to avert the worst, to stay the hand of the
aggressor, who la gambling with the future of the world, there must be
unity of all who sup- port peace, freedom and independence.
H
Statement by the South Vietnam National-Liberation Front
1
1
ני
: ה |
1
.
17.
people have waged
pal the p
+
T
Ꮀ
1-
1.-
9 Ch. 1.
L'
- 15 m
Ted Me L 1
Ter pe plen
Hop the b
ד:
.F
+
F
L
The
15 Prent y
The Central Committee of the South Viginanı Makional-Liberation Front
published a telement on February 20 selling forth Iti poslilan with
regard to the intensited US. aggression in Vatnam. The full text at this
statement, which was read out at a press conference in Moscow on March 9
by Nguyen Van Deng, deputy bead of the HLF mission in the US,58, 11
given below.
A
FTER the failure of their schenen
H
of dominating South Viakosin key of the puppet administration and army
and through the "special war," the US imperiebata have Jor years now
brownssly brought their podkissary broaga bato Santh
la vaga see of the BercRL WES wkes ever known in history.
Condemand by the whole of protres-
mankind. Johnern and has tha
smessingly prolazing "dosten for porca." wice in fact obert stały
intemdyme and standing WAT OF AETCOMton in South Vickan, cegating a
particularly dangerous situs
Against the 10
ted people South Vietnam, the Johnson Admcular tration ba
ing the US, mjuk
aty corps, which from 13,000 men at the end of 1954 was increased to
180200 by the and af 1965 and
the 15 troops permanently mationed
thu nhưpe of the 7th Fleet, at et US bases in Thailand, the Mulippines,
Okinawa. Quaet, etc. the total number or US, troops participating in the
sour of aggremien in South VietNam no surende half a million, by lat
surfan lng the US strength in the war
Troops from variowe US, satelli enantries bass than 20.000 by the and of
1965. have now been increased so over 55,000. The US
$
anda ni adesional U5. troops to South
Vietnam. At the amine time it la Mylng the policy of using the mang
Batumi rovovees and Serritory of sla Vatnal countries in Aula and the
Pacific LENA for NEETAston in South Vielsen,
Equipped with modern mom of Warfare and sing on a large scale the most
barbarous kunde of lethal weapons forbidden by laternational lew, mich
an napalm, phosphorus and other types of bomba, woll
Becke add poison gua, mc. the US
and Chels launched hana of thousands of Tam carried out 3-52 bombings
everywh from the cost of the South China Sex be the Jeontiges of Lace
and Cambodia, from the Mekong data to Quang Til and This Thin provinces,
the denile
included.
Commong the methode of modern Warface with the
hand by 198ther and the medieval momercka, the US. Imperiale laka have
bony promoting their policy HE TRAIAN, destroy all, wwen áll," come
melting the meat bucherov trivas la 166 alean, 137.000 som of bombs were
hed apaleat South Vietnamese villag-
theen ting more than in 1965 and by far exceeding the quantity of bombe
and in World War 1 in the Paclic
In 1963-88, the US aggran sad that poppets killed or vesaded hundreds of
thousands of civilians, among whom thousand ware killed by taxie bar and
hundreds of others wien
tortured to death. Many towns and vil
lazer with themmende of sababctants work leveled out.
In an attempt to avert the danger of
dalal la South Vialen, the US. đà pecialists for more than two year have
beanly carried out a war of destross Bon against North Vietnam with
their air force and navy, prosty encroaching
the sovereignty and independency of
the Democratic Republic of Violgan, piling up new crimes azdinst the
entira people of Vietnam. Mors, they hava latterly lakan a sew step of
ascalation, saing artibery qua hasad south of the
warships to skall many popolated of North Vietnam. They dominotly mand
that the 17 milion people of North Vietnam give up their seerad
night and obligation to support the 36-
pratina strmegle at their kith and ki In South Vietnam. At the same time
they contiene denying and pealing the ZOUKANZA VAT within US KRETARIOK
foc potional satralen VOZAČ by all strata of the people in South Vietnam
under the leadership of the South
National-Liberation
Prost and shamelessly demand that the
In South Vietnam stop byking. hordarson, Uke US imperistiwa have been
chusalasly expanding. The "special war" in Laos, mbotaging. The 1962
Geneva Agreemonia de task, re
sily launching quacha and provo- Doka against the Kingdom of Came bodia,
in an attempt to turn the whole
of Polo-Chloe todo a thoire of win.
AN the US walk about prece ir abs viously a zene hour: in reality Ukay
are lotaneitying and expanding the war, ihent purpose being to cling to
South Vietnam at all costs, and to poepelsale the partition of Vietnam.
In Die New Yours manage, Johanna declared that would "aland kom su South
Vut- and asked the Americag people
pply mois troops and money.
To the NUT, humans policy of He ponding military attachu durkan verioca
I
pot an end to the aggress. Y
L
י.
T101
1
1
. -
the savage bang f
entrandsong the N
Toch only
יין 11
L
H
I
AZI
F ון
**
i.
4
I.
detaile to
pesce e Vin
N
10 to the
and GetaNA AN kamery challenge in progresive people dual who prize
beach, even whee
ALBA
Fire, for Sad Vietnam National Lderation
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.