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18 OCTOBER 1967 (HWB 1/17)
CONFIDENTIAL
FOLLOWING FOR HALL FROM GALSWORTHY,
ANTHONY ROYLE M.P. HAS PUT DOWN QUESTION FOR ORAL REPLY ON 24 OCTOBER
ASKING SECRETARY OF STATE IF HE WILL MAKE STATEMENT ON SITUATION IN HONG
KONG. FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF DRAFT REPLY WHICH WE PROPOSE TO SUBMIT:
QUOTE.
THE MONTH OF AUGUST WAS MARKED BY AN INCREASED RESORT TO TERRORISM ON
THE PART OF THE COMMUNISTS, AND BOMB INCIDENTS HAVE CONTINUED SINCE THEN
WITH FLUCTUATING INTENSITY. I KNOW THE HOUSE WILL JOIN WITH ME IN
DEPLORING THE LOSS OF LIFE AND INJURIES CAUSED BY THIS ODIOUS AND QUITE
POINTLESS TERRORISM, AND IN EXPRESSING OUR SYMPATHY TO THOSE WHO HAVE
BEEN AFFECTED BY IT.
INCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED ON THE FRONTIER VARYING FROM MINOR
INCURSIONS OF CIVILIANS TO MORE SERIOUS INCIDENTS SUCH AS THE
ABDUCTION OF POLICE PERSONNEL AND CIVILIANS.
THE HONG KONG POLICE HAVE CONTINUED TO ACT VIGOROUSLY AGAINST THE
COMMUNIST TERRORISTS: AND THANKS TO THEIR SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR AND TO, THE
STEADFAST SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, THE AUTHO- RITIES REMAIN
WELL IN CONTROL OF THE SITUATION. THE COLONY IS CONTINUING ITS NORMAL
LIFE: AND IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT ITS EXPORTS FOR EACH MONTH SINCE THE
DISTURBANCES BEGAN HAVE EXCEEDED THOSE FOR THE CORRESPONDING MONTHS LAST
YEAR. UNQUOTE
2. GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD DISCUSS WITH MINISTER AND GOVERNOR AND LET US
HAVE ANY COMMENTS AS MATTER OF URGENCY.
3. IN PREPARATION FOR SUPPLEMENTARIES WE SHOULD ALSO BE GRATEFUL TO
RECEIVE BY LATER TELEGRAMS DETAILS AS AT 23 OCTOBER OF:
(A) CASUALTIES FATAL AND NON FATAL
(B) TOTAL NUMBER OF ARRESSTS, CONVICTIONS, ACQUITTALS AND RELEASES,
ALL WITH EFFECT FROM BEGINNING OF DISTURBANCES: AND,
(C) TOTAL PRISON POPULATION AS AT THAT DATE.
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their splendid behaving
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In a lightning operation at Ta Kwu Ling village this morning a police
party arrested a man who is believed to be ringleader of past
disturbances on British Territory in this sector of border.
He is Iu Wong Kwai (repeat Iu Wong Kwai) forty-five from Lo Fang village
(repeat Lo Fang village) which lies just across the frontier from Ta Kwu
Ling.
Iu is now being questioned by police in connexion with incident at Lo
Fang Bridge on August 11 when a police inspector was seriously injured
and Stirling machine gun stolen by a violent group of troublemakers from
across border.
Typhoon threat apparently discouraged local terrorists from planting
bombs today Thursday. Only eleven objects were found between 8 a.m. and
7 p.m. of which only two proved to be real bombs.
Typhoon Carla which caused death of more than forty people in Taiwan
by-passed Colony. Storm had been threatening Colony for past two days.
Governor in Council has accepted Housing Board's recommendations as a
working basis subject to availability of sites and funds for
Government's resettlement and low cost housing programmes for six year
period from April 1966 to March 1972.
This acceptance of recommendations as a working basis has also been
endorsed by Finance Committee of Legislative Council.
Board's recommendations are:
(1) an increase of space standard in re-designed
(2)
resettlement blocks from a minimum of twenty-four square feet to
thirty-five square feet per adult (i.e. person over ten years of age) on
first allocation in all but larger rooms;
and
an adjustment of balance between present resettlement and Government low
cost housing building programmes to allow six-hundred
-and-fifty-thousand individual units of Government low cost housing to
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These are principal recommendations made by Housing Bot in its report
which was tabled at meeting of Legislative Counci on June 28 this year.
Financial Secretary Mr. J. Cowperthwaite will be leaving Hong Kong by
air tomorrow for London for discussions with officials of Commonwealth
Office and other Departments in Whitehall on implications for Hong Kong
of Britain's application to join Common Market.
Mr. Cowperthwaite will be accompanied by Mr. C.P. Haddon-Cave Deputy
Economic Secretary and Mr. D.G. Jeaffreson Assistant Director of
Commerce and Industry.
Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs Lord Shepherd held meeting
with Representatives of Colony's three major trade and industrial
organisations this morning.
They are Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Hong Kong
Industries and Chinese Manufacturers Association.
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 2139.
FOR GALSWORTHY FROM HALL.
BUBLE-
VE ELL YOUR PROPOSED REPLY TENDS TO STRESS 'TERRORISM'
R UNDULY, THIS
TO SOME EXTENT PLAYS INTO THE HAMUS OF TOUBLE-
MAKURS. THE BOMB INCIDENTS AT PRESENT AT ANY RATE DO NOT AMOUNT TO
TERROR' AND ARE SIGNALLY FAILING TO UPSET THE NORMAL LIFE OF THE
COMMUNITY. IN GENERAL THE ATMOSPHERE IS ONE OF 'BUSINESS AS USUAL' AND,
E.G. OPENING OF RACING SEASON ON
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SATURDAY AND MONDAY LAST WAS WELL ATTENDED.
2. WE SUGGEST EMPHASIS SHOULD BE ON MORMALCY RATHER THAN ON TERRORISM
AND WOULD PREFER REPLY AS FOLLOWS:
'ECONOMICALLY HONG KONG CONTINUES TO PROSPER BECAUSE OF THE
DETER).INATION, ENERGY AND INDUSTRY OF HER PEOPLE. EXPORTS
AND TOURISTS HAVE INCREASED BY 16% AND 12% OVER THE CORRESPONDING
FIGURES FOR 1966. IN MOST WAYS THE COLONY CONTINUES ITS NORIAL,
ENERGETIC LIFE DESPITE SPORADIC 30M3 INCIDENTS. I KNOW THE HOUSE WILL
WISH TO RECORD THEIR ADMIRATION FOR THE SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR OF THE PEOPLE
OF HONG KONG WHO HAVE REFUSED TO BE INTIMIDATED BY THE ACTS OF VIOLENCE
BY A VERY SMALL GROUP OF TROUBLEMAKERS. WE ALL DEPLORE THE LOSS OF LIFE
AND INJURIES THESE HAVE CAUSED AND I AM SURE THE HOUSE WILL WISH IDE TO
EXPRESS OUR SYMPATHY TO THOSE WHO HAVE
SUFFERED PERSONAL LOSSES. THE HONG KONG POLICE HAVE CONTINUED TO CARRY
OUT THEIR ONEROUS AND DANGEROUS DUTIES WITH DETE.
A RESTRAINT.
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SENT TO YOU BY BAG GIVE UP TO DATE INFORMATION AND WE THINK DETAILS AS
OF THAT DATE SHOULD
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