按：1967年9月29日英国驻华代办处一秘Ray Whitney给英国外交部David
Wilson报告从外文出版社聘请的一位外国专家得到的最新消息，主要内容是确认英国外交官之前得到的信息，即中共领导层在9月1日讲话中对8月22日激进派火烧英国代办处表示非常不满。可惜这位专家今天就合同期满离开中国了，所以这是她最后一次提供消息。
CONFIDENTIAL
Charge d'Affaires
PEKING.
29 September, 1967
Dear David,
Last night I obtained a few items of interest
from our foreign contact in the Foreign Languages Press, some of which provide
useful confirmation of earlier information. I regret that this will be the last
offering from this particular source as she is today leaving China at the
expiry of her contact.
2. Source had apparently seen various
documents and reports of the recent speeches of Chinese leaders and had had a
number of long conversations with her Chinese colleagues who, perhaps because
source was on the point of departure, apparently spoke extremely frankly.
Source could remember only a few of the details of what she saw and heard but
retained a deep impression that the Maoists were in serious trouble throughout
China and had no very clear idea of how to cope with it except to allow the PLA
full rein to act in the restoration order. She confirmed that the speeches of 1
September and on other recent occasions had contained very strong injunctions
indeed to the revolutionaries to quieten down. As far as she could see these
directions were already having some effect in the Foreign Languages Press and
the Friendship Hotel. Chiang Ch’ing, who had dealt with revolutionaries particularly
severely, apparently said that “tens of thousands” of weapons had been stolen
from the PLA and this could not be tolerated. The army must now take firm
measures.
3.In his speech Chou en-lai is reported to
have said that “We are now six months behind in production but we shall be able
to make this up if (sic ) we succeed in the cultural revolution. ”
4. Source had also seen and heard quite a lot
of references to the attack on the British office which indicated that it was
strongly condemned by the leadership and had been contrary to the instructions
they had issued. She had heard, from what she regarded as reliable sources,
that the operation against the office had been directly organized and
controlled by Yao Teng-shan, the former Chinese Charge in Djakarta. According
to this report, red guards were sent to Yao’s own house two days after the
attack on us and ransacked it as a reprisal. When I refered to the possibility
that the alleged regret on the part of the Chinese leadership about the events
of 22nd was merely a tactical maneuver and that these stories had
been given to her with the deliberate intention that she would pass them on to
us, source said she was quite convinced that this was not the case. She had had
reports from very sources that the attack was deplored by the central
leadership and believed they were genuine.
I am copying this letter to Brian Gilmore in Washington and to Emrys Davies in
Hong Kong.
Yours ever
Ray
(R.W.
Whitney)
FAR EASTERN DEPARTMENT
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