FCO 40/154 Disturbances 1967-1968

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TITLE: HONG KONG: POLITICAL & ADMINISTRATIVE

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No. CR 51/3371/67

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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT.

LOWER ALBERT ROAD. HONG KONG,

Dear Gaminara,

20th November, 1968.

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　　　　　　　　　Here are six copies of a comprehensive report on the bomb campaign in Hong Kong in 1967, for such distribution as you may think advisable in Whitehall.

　　　　　　　　　Copies are being distributed through the Services and the London based intelligence agencies here.

　　　　　　　　　We are also sending copies to Hibbert in Singapore and to Wilford in Washington.

your minicarel

A.W. Gaminara, Esq., C.M.G., Hong Kong Department, Foreign and Colonial Office, LONDON S.W. 1

RECEIVED IN Encls ARCHIVES No.31

26 NOV 1958

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PRIORITY HONG KONG

TELEGRAM NO%205

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ALDRESSED FCO TELEGRAM NO. 2206 OF 26TH NOVEMBER REPEATED PEKING,

TAMSU1, AND WASHINGTON.

FILI QUOTE THE CHAIRMAN UNQUOTE.

THE LOCAL COMMUNIST PRESS HAS BEEN VIGOROUSLY ATTACKING THE ALLEGED

VILIFICATION OF MAO IN THIS TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM BEING MADE

MAINLY AT PINEWOOD AND IN TAIWAN. A FEW LINK SCENES WERE CUE TO BE

SHOT HERE AT THE WEEKEND, THE ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG WITH THE

FILM HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF SPECIAL ATTACK.

2. IT IS LIKELY THAT IF THE FILM COMPANY PROCEEDED WITH ITS PLANS

TO SHOOT IN PUBLIC PLACES HERE, THERE WOULD BE DISTURBANCES. WE

ARE THEREFORE INFORMING THE COMPANY THAT FOR THAT REASON WE CANNOT

ALLOW THEM TO SHOOT IN HONG KONG. WE HOPE THE COMPANY WILL ACCEPT

THE DECISION WITHOUT ARGUMENT AND WILL AGREE TO ANNOUNCE THAT IT

HAS CHANGED ITS FLANS BUT IF IT IS NOT CO-OPERATIVE WE SHALL

ANNOUNCE THAT WE CANNOT PERMIT THE PROPOSED SHOOTING.

3. WE HAVE INFORMED THE U.S. CONSULATE-GENERAL WHO DO NOT DISSENT.

FCO PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING TAMSU! AND WASHINGTON.

SIR D. TRENCH

/REPEATED AS REQUESTED/

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26NOV 1968

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Mr. Gaminara

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Two copies of the previous bomb report were brought back from Hong Kong by Sir Arthur Galsworthy in January this year. of the two copies is at /681 on HWB 1/17 and the second was retained by the Police Adviser.

As copies of the present report have been distributed through the services and the London based intelligence agencies in Hong Kong there is little distribution left for us to do. I suggest we keep one copy on file and one in the department and send one each to the Police Adviser and Far Eastern Department. The remaining two copies should, I suggest, be destroyed as we do not have unlimited space for the storage of confidential documents.

3. I attach a draft acknowledgment to Harrison.

Norman A. Smith

N.A.SMITH

28 November 1968

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I am now sending you a draft record of the whole of Lord Shepherd's discussions with Hr. Jackson- Lipkin, covering both interviowo on 13 and 20 November.

The first interview was entirely concerned with legal matters, and I do not believe that it will be necessary to take any action other than that which followed the Minister's previous meeting with Mr. de Basto, Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, during August. Such action as was then necessary has been taken on File HWB 14/61 but there is nothing yet to report.

3. As Mr. Jackson-Lipkin was told on the 20 November, it will be very difficult to follow up his report that a Magistrate sentenced certain spectators at his court summarily for contempt until he, Mr. Jackson -Lipkin, provides us with full details, which he has undertaken to do. I understand that at the time of the disturbances there was a concerted Communist attempt to disrupt proceedings in a Magistrate's Court where the offenders had to be dealt with summarily by contempt procedure, but their misconduct amounted to a great deal more than merely failing to stand up. Hr. Jackson-Lipkin may well have picked up an incomplete or biased account of that or a similar occasion.

Police (Paras 8 and 9 of the record).

It has not been difficult to establish that there is no truth whatsoever in Mr. Jackson-Lipkin's allegation that the Crown Agents recruit British Police Officers without using at opnídidates' interviews the services of any Senior Hong Kong Police Officer who huppene to be on leave at the time and available. According to Mr. Jackson- Lipkin this charge was made at the Police Training School, but in fact it transpires that Senior Superintendent P. T. Hoor, Commandant Designate of the Police Training School is on leave at the moment and has been sitting at candidates' interviews with the Crown Agents. This apart other Police Officers on leave have attended previously and the Police Advisers, FCO, both with very considerable overseas police experience, attend regularly,

5. Although I have not recorded it in the note of the meeting, Mr. Jackson-Lipkin also charged that vacancies in the Hong Kong force vore not properly notified at this end, so that to his knowige Metropolitan Police, who would have applied were unable to do so. I have established that all such yácancies are advertised and that interested Officers from the Metropolitan Force may apply and have on occasions done вo.

/It is impossible

6. It is impossible to take seriously Mr. Jackson- Lipkin's accusation that no Director of Education had ever visited a "roof-top school" simply because, presumably, he was told at the one such school he visited himgalf that the Director had not been there, It is likely that he was given the answer the school authorities thought he wanted. With regard to the relation between the number of primary and secondary school places, I noe that an analysis of the

progression for 1966 (the latest figures available at this stage) of the percentage presing from primary schools to school certifio te courses whol

Government and Aided School

15.6%

Assisted places in Private

Schools

2.5%

Private Schools

50.3%

68.4%

The total percentago progressing from primary schooln to Modern, Tecunical, an. Special Courses, not leading to a school certificate, was higher, 73.6%.

I do not think it is worth commenting on these hardy annu-l com,1/ints against Colonial service. They arise of course from the different conditions which must apply to expatriates and indigenous staff and from the establishment difficulties caused by periods of bone leave for expatriates.

Agricultyre.

Farming subsidies are not paid in the Colony, but there fe excellent arrangements for agricultural credit, financial assistance being rendered to farmers from a number of credit funds administerců by the department, the Government accepting responsibility of bearing such ccuts in addition to supplementing these funds as necessary. Work on improved breeding streing of live-stock is concentrated on pigs end poultry rather than cattle. There is very limited grazing for cattle, and thuse in the Colony are reared and maintained principally for draft purposes.

But there

is a herd of dairy Freeian cttle which has to be maintained in specialised conditions by the Government.

25 November 1968

(II. E. Stewart) Hong Kong Department

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Reference

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