这是英国驻华代办处Peters向英国外交部报告近期北京红卫兵运动的情况，要点包括：
1.在多日来持续宣传北京8.31大会讲话 （按：8月31日毛泽东在天安门广场接见外地来京师生，林彪在会上讲话要文斗不要武斗）后，红卫兵在北京街头公然施暴的场面不见了，警察恢复维持秩序的工作，新的商店招牌和街道名称标志已经出现，这或许说明“破旧”阶段至少在北京已经结束并转入“立新”了。
2. 不过街上仍然有人被挂上侮辱性的黑牌，驱逐某些家庭离开北京的活动仍在持续，与驻华外交官有联系的中国人仍然受到骚扰，红卫兵仍然占据外交公墓。
3.北京充斥着外地来的红卫兵，他们忙于抄录大字报和排队购买毛的像章或作品。
4.北京大学就和火车站一样设立了中转站，原北大领导仍然被罚劳动示众。
5.据大字报介绍，8月份底多处大城市发生混乱，可见北京8.31大会的信息仍然在外地缓慢的传递.
6.《人民日报》9月7日要求红卫兵下乡帮助秋收。北京有通告要求外地学生在9.10前离开。还没有定论说红卫兵会永远保留下去。
CONFIDENTIAL
FROM PEKING
TO FOREIGN OFFICE
CYPHER/OTP FO/CO/WH DISTRIBUTION
Mr. Peters
No. 760 D. 0942 9 September, 1966
9 September,1966 R. 1144 9 September, 1966
CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No, 760 of 9
September.
Repeated for information to: Hong Kong
POLAD Singapore
Washington
and Saving to: Moscow
My telegram No 724: Red Guard Activity
Following is current situation report on Red
Guard activity, based mainly on our own observations.
2. Since 28 August and more particularly since
mass rally on 31 August (speeches at which were repeatedly broadcast for
several days after), public acts of violence by Red Guards in Peking began markedly
to abate, and these have now virtually ceased, A good deal of the normal life
of Peking is gradually being resumed. The police have taken charge again.
Citizenry are now painting monster slogans, new signboards for shops, etc., and
some new permanent street signs have appeared . Gigantic brick hoardings
(presumably destined to carry Mao's sayings) are being erected at key points in
town and on airport route. These will presumably be ready by National Day on 1
October. All this activity suggests that destructive phase, in Peking at least, is over and “setting up the new”
is in operation.
3. Nevertheless, individual Chinese hung with
placards of shame are still to be seen under escort in streets or being sent
out to unknown destinations in the country and quieter persecution goes on. Chinese
associated with Foreign Missions are still being harried, and the Red Guards
continue to occupy the foreign cemetery.
4. Peking is crammed with young Red Guards from
other parts of China, and the railway station has been a vast transit camp for
over a week. Trains to and from the provinces are full to bursting point with
young passengers. The streets of the capital are still festooned with leaflets,
posters, "suggestions" etc, emanating from Red Guards (though few new
ones have appeared in recent days). Surplus young population is being kept
occupied (apart from meetings), transcribing texts on streets into their
notebooks and queuing up (often for hours at a stretch) for the
"works" or lapel badges Of Mao.
5. Peking University (like the railway station)
has also the appearance of a transit camp , and former university party members
are still on display at manual tasks in the campus, providing negative example for
Red Guards from outside Peking.
6. Wall posters give ample evidence of
disorders in the last week of August in several major Chinese cities ( including
Peking, Tientsin , Tsingtao, Changsha and Lanchou.), and a number of
"wanted" notices appear to confirm this . Presumably the restraining
message of 31 August is getting through, after some time lag , to provincial Chinese
cities , but situation there until recently seems to have been confused and tense.
7. The directive in People's Daily of 7
September that Red Guards should go to help with the harvest in the countryside
may siphon off the floating population. Posters have been seen asking Red
Guards from other cities to leave Peking by 10 September. There is no
confirmation yet that the Red Guards will become a permanent organization.
Foreign Office please
pass Washington 282 and Saving Moscow 93.
[Repeated as requested]
CONFIDENTIAL
英国外交部档案号：FO_371_186982
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