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Your telegram No. 1038 paragraph 3.
Disturbances.
As I have previously explained, I must, to maintain and bolster public
confidence and morale, be in a position at all times to take action to
seize and keep the initiative whenever desirable. Your telegram under
reference relates to deportation action against selected key Communist
leaders, but there is a class of agitators in Communist unions
responsible for the stoppages which have recently occurred, and whom it
might be salutory to take action against. not key leaders, they are of
importance in the context of Peking Daily editorials which put Hong Kong
workers in the forefront of the struggle here.
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2. I would like to have your permission now to pick up and deport (or
detain if entry is refused) 3 or 4 such men if and when I consider it
desirable to do so, even though the immediate situation has not
deteriorated but is, currently, fairly quiet. In this connection there
is some mounting public demand for deportation action against such
people: public opinion generally would probably favour it.
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Sitrep as at 13 1100.
Normal supplies of fresh foodstuffs have been
interrupted by a partial stoppage in some markets, but only pork and
fresh water fish supplies are affected to any extent. The labour
situation generally has improved although the Gas Works is still
seriously undermanned. Prices of food have dropped.
2.
As a result of action taken by distributors of mainland supplies, no
pigs were slaughtered yesterday or this morning.
No vegetables were delivered yesterday from the mainland, but many
market stalls have been selling remaining stock from yesterday and fresh
supplies from the New Territories. Landings of marine fish have been
normal, but some delay has occurred in distribution. Beef supplies are
normal. Since this is the aftermath of a holiday, food purchases are
below average and it is still too early to judge the effect of these
disruptions. The position is not serious at present. The timing of these
incidents is believed to be an effort to demonstrate Communist ability
without arousing serious opposition from either retailers or buyers.
3.
As a result of measures taken last week the retail price of rice has
dropped very quickly and the situation is now considered to be
satisfactory.
Re-registration of Gas Works employees is going very slowly. Staff of
the Dairy Farm are returning, however, despite the issue of dismissal
notices yesterday and there is now no danger of a failure in the cold
storage plant. The Star Ferry is now operating three vessels normally
with five at rush-hours.
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We agree that courses outlined in paragraph 4 of your telegram under
reference are not so severe as deportation and are open to less
criticism. But, on the assessments of CPG involvement in Peking telegram
No. 626 to Foreign Office and your telegram No. 776, we judge it would
be wiser to avoid action against their "officials" in the NCNA, Bank of
China and China Resources Company if at all possible, since this would
make it more difficult for them to disengage from a policy of all-out
confrontation.
2. On the other hand, we appreciate that officials of the NCNA and Bank
have been in the forefront of the anti- Government propaganda campaign
which must be effectively countered if the confidence of the ordinary
people of Hong Kong is to be retained.
3. Question of NCNA here is not seen to be particularly relevant. Its
representatives are of course no danger to internal security here (as
they are in Hong Kong) and any action against them would be purely
retaliatory.
Home Office agreement is required and consultations are proceeding with
a view to deciding what action might be taken if any should be
considered necessary or desirable.
The paramount consideration is the need to maintain internal security
(and therefore public confidence and morale) in Hong Kong. We must leave
it to you to decide whether in the local circumstances such measures as
you propose are required but we hope that you can hold your hand as long
as possible.
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Hy immediately preceding telegram,
The text of the telegram sent by Leung Wai Lam, Director of the local
branch of the N.C.N.A. at 2400 hours on 10 June is as follows:-
"Mr. Trench (G.H. Upper Alber Road).
During the past few days the Hong Kong British authorities have deployed
large groups of police and "anti-riot equads" to carry out extreme
Fascist atrocities in persecuting
forbidding our patriotic compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon; the
pasting up of posters of Mao Tse-Tung's thoughts, and also posters
disclosing the atrocities of the H.K. British authorities, as well as
big character posters and pictures, and suppressing our compatriots'
anti-persecution struggle.
On 8 June, the H.K. British "anti-riot squads" again attacked the
workers in Government electrical and mechanical section of the P.W.D.
depot and the Gas Company at Tokwawan; they beat up large numbers of
workers and arrested some five hundred odd persons, Up to now, there are
still a large number of workers detained by the police without reason.
the persons arrested was a worker of the G.E.M.E. of P.W.D., Twui Tin
Port (1776-3944-3134). Teuit was later beaten to
death by the H.K. British police.
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Late in the evening of 9 June, the H.K. British police and their special
agents carried out another premedi- tated plot in attacking the Silver
Palace Theatre in Kwun Tong, Kowloon. There they beat up staff members
of the theatre and arrested, without just cause, the manager and twenty
odd employees. At the same time, articles were stolen.
The most important thing was that the police and their special agents
dared to smash to pieces a statue of Chairman Mao;
and to tear to pieces pictures and posters of Mao Tse-Tung's thoughts.
This is a direct insult to the great leader of the Chinese people, and
is an extreme political
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provocation. This form of atrocities will never be forborne by the
Chinese people. I therefore, once again, lodge with you the most
strongest and the most urgent protest against this action.
We compatriots of Hong Kong and Kowloon and all the Chinese people who
armed with Kao Tse-Tung'a thoughts, know only too well how to finish off
you Fascist bandits. A11 blood debts must be paid by blood. The illegal
occupation of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories by
British Imperialists over the past 100 odd years will be completely
cleared. If you do not bow and admit your faults, and insist on being
the enemy of the Chinese people, the result can only be your being
beaten to pieces by all the Chinese compatriots in Hong Kong and
Kowloon. There is no other solution,"
2. This adds little new but there are two obvious lines for future
exploitation.
(a) The destruction of a bust of Mao and the tearing
down of posters of kao's thoughts. There was quite a brisk resistance to
the police raid on Friday night. Busts of Mao were plentiful and the
fact that only one was broken in the melee is remarkable. In general
Kao's thoughts are not touched. It is possible that the odd poster
bearing them has been removed but the policy is to limit action to
obviously inflammatory material. 0.1.8. here are countering these
allegations.
(b) The death of a gas works employee in police custody which has
already been reported. Another body has now been found in the Kowloon
Gas Works in a coal bunker below ground level. It is estimated that
death occurred two or more days ago so the man may have hidden in the
bunker or fallen in during the police action on Friday. The result of
the post mortem is not yet known,
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rumours of widespread action impending. Only in the Gas Works and the
Dairy Farm are there serious stoppages at the moment. There was a large
pro-Communist demonstration in the border village Sha Tau Kok in British
territory on Saturday. Police took action against a loudspeaker in a
Communist owned cinema in Kowloon on Friday night. A further telegram or
protest has been received from Leung Wai Lam, local director of the
N.C.N.A. There are further rumours of attempts to interfere with the
distribution of food on the island tomorrow.
2.
Despite the failure of the proposed general strike on Saturday there are
rumours of another attempt being made. Today is a Chinese holiday so we
cannot expect much action. The Government policy of dismissing absentee
workers and re-registering which has been followed by two major public
utilities may have discouraged the repetition of small scale token
strikes. The Gas Works labour force strength is still only 10 per cent
the Government assistance continues. The Dairy Farm is not producing ice
which will affect the fishing and food supply industries. Some
difficulty is being found in keeping the cold storage plant going where
the majority of our reserves of perishable foodstuffs is kept.
Government assistance is being considered,
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posters. These will be removed but this is a very sensitive area where
the border runs through the main street of the village.
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On Friday night a Communist cinema, which had been periodically
broadcasting a short but virulent anti-Government diatribe, was raided.
Twenty-five people were arrested and charged with obstruction and
assault on the police using iron bars. A mumber of batons, home-made
bludgeons and crude gas masks were found as well as quanitities of food
and posters.
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The protest by Leung Wai Lam (text as in my following telegram) followed
the usual propaganda lines emphasising the tearing down of posters
bearing Mao's Thoughts and "the beating to death" of a prisoner. It adds
little that is new and is probably designed mainly for internal
consumption by the Communist Party supporters in Hong Kong. However,
another dead body has been found in the Gas Works in Kowloon and this
could well give renewed impetus to allegations of brutality.
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