The 1967 riots in Hong Kong: The diplomatic and domestic fronts of the colonial governor

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 193, 2008, Pages 122-139

  Yep, Ray ^a  

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COMMUNISM; DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; SOVEREIGNTY;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41049088677     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741008000076     Document Type: Article

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2. FCO 40/45, Hong Kong to the Commonwealth Office, 7/5/1967, Telegram No. 553.
3. FCO 40/45, Hong Kong to Secretary of State of Commonwealth Affairs, 11/5/ 1967, Telegram No. 947.
4. FCO 40/49, Hong Kong Government Report on "Current communist disturbances in Hong Kong," 31/8/1967.
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13. FCO 21/204, Despatch No. 12, Office of the British Chargé to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Telegram, 6/6/1967.
14. Ibid.
15. FCO 40/45 Telegram from Beijing Chargé d'Affaires to the Foreign Office, No. 480, 15/51/1967.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. CAB 134/2945, K(69)1, 28 March 1969, Cabinet Ministerial Committee on Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Long Term Study.
19. Ibid.
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22. However, one should also note the tension on covert activities in Hong Kong between the Americans and the colonial administration. For details, see Steve Tsang, "Strategy for survival: The Cold War and Hong Kong's policy towards Kuomintang and Chinese communist activities in the 1950s," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 25, No. 2 (1997), pp. 294-317.
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27. FCO 40/47, David Trench to the Commonwealth Office, 10 June 1967.
28. FRUS, 1964 68, XXX, China, document no. 263.
29. DEFE 13/857, Galsworthy to Saville Garner, ref. C/165/5.
30. CAB 134/2945, K(67)5, 20/9/1967.
31. FCO 21/191 Note by E. Bolland, Head of Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office 20/2/1967.
32. "The Hong Kong University students' union council on the recent riot" (17/5/1967), in Ma Ming (ed.), The Riot in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Sky Horse Book Company, 1967), p. 30,
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36. Hong Kong Hansard, 1967, p. 390.
37. Interview with Edward Eates, Exeter, 28 May 2006.
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39. Ming Pao, 7 July 1967.
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46. FCO 40/46, the Commonwealth Office to Hong Kong, Telegram No. 1038, 25/5/ 1967.
47. FCO 40/54, Extract from C.O.S. (67)55th meeting held on 11/7/1967.
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53. FCO 40/51 from JIC London to Hong Kong, 2/11/1967.
54. FCO 40/114, paper prepared by the Colonial Secretariat, 22/11/1967.
55. In August 1958, Parker Tu, headmaster of the Pui Kiu Middle School, a hard-core communist school in Hong Kong, was deported for the school's active political indoctrination of students. Hon Wah Middle School, another flagship communist institution, was ordered to close down for safety reasons in the same month. Zhou Yi, History of Left-wing Struggle in Hong Kong, pp. 170-80.
56. FCO 40/88, "The confrontation with communists in schools," ref. T. S, 1/3/1168/47, 7/12/67.
57. Ibid.
58. FCO 40/88, Hong Kong to Commonwealth Office, Telegram No. 1779, 28/11/ 1967.
59. FCO 40/88, Hong Kong to Commonwealth Office, Telegram No. 1785, 29/11/ 1967.
60. FCO 40/88, Hong Kong to Commonwealth Office, Telegram No, 831, 29/6/1968.
61. FCO 40/88 Beijing to Foreign Office, Telegram No. 648, 8/7/1968
62. FCO 40/88 Beijing to Foreign Office, Telegram No. 620, 2/7/1968.
63. Ibid.
64. FCO 40/88 Hong Kong Commonwealth Office, Telegram No. 855, 5/7/1968.
65. FCO 40/88, James Murray to Wilkinson, 8/8/1968.
66. FCO 40/217, "The Requisition of Ships Order 1955," Hong Kong Department 5/12/1968, "The Requisition of Ships Order 1969," Hong Kong Department 9/10/1969.
67. FCO 40/114, Hall to Carter, 4/12/1967.
68. Gao Wenqian, Wannian Zhou Enlai (Zhou Enlai in Twilight Years) (Hong Kong: Mirror Books, 2003) p. 232.