SCMP, 21 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

BOMB OUTRAGE IN N. POINT
Bastardly Act By Communists
TWO CHILDREN KILLED

(5 Photos)

(Caption 1-3: Police officers examining the car which was damaged by the explosion. Above picture shows the sorrowing mother last night and a group photograph of her four children taken sometime ago. The two victims are on extreme left and extreme right.)

(Caption 4: Mr Wong)

(Caption 5: Police officers talking to six-year-old Wong Siu-hung, brother of the victims, near the scene of the explosion.)

A seven-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother were killed in a bomb explosion in North Point yesterday in what must be the most dastardly Communist-inspired act to date.

The explosion occurred in a side-lane in Ching Wah Street near the Kiangsu and Chekiang College shortly before 5 pm. The bomb had apparently been left in the lane where the girl, Wong Yee-man, and her brother, Wong Siu-fan, were playing with other children.

Another of the Wong children, a six-year-old boy, had seen his sister “carry something” out of the lane. He thought nothing of it at the time and walked some distance away to play with his friends.

Seconds later came the explosion that ended two young lives. Witnesses said they saw the two children playing with something in front of a car parked at the top of the street. The car was badly damaged by the explosion.

The explosion brought the children's father, 34-year-old Wong Yiu-wing out of his home at the foot of the street where he runs a small machine factory. He ran towards the explosion about 100 yards up the hill and on the ground found his two children. He saw that the girl was dead but noticed a movement from the boy. Dazed, the father picked up his son and started down the hill.

As he turned into Ching Wah Street he met a police sergeant who told him that an ambulance was on its way.

He told the sergeant that another of his children lay at the top of the street. “She is probably dead,” he added. Beside him his wife, Chan Lai-kuen, 27, could say nothing and was apparently suffering from shock.

The father went back up the street to identify his daughter's body. He told police and reporters: “I heard an explosion and I rushed out to see what had happened. I found it was my own son and daughter who had been killed. Why should this happen? She was the best of all my children. Now she is dead.”

He added: “I can't understand what these people are aiming at. If they are not satisfied with the Government, they should take it up with the proper authority.

“Who would have thought of such a thing. Leaving these extremely dangerous things in a highly populated residential area, an area populated by ordinary working class.”

The dead children were the first and fourth of the Wong family. Two other children, a six-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter remain.

Mr J. Harris, Divisional Superintendent of Bayview Police Station, said: “I have been a policeman for 15 years and have seen many shocking crimes out this is one of the most senseless and disgusting of my experience. The tactics of the local Communists are now obvious. These bombs are left lying about where children are the most likely people to come upon them. Being children they are likely to be inquisitive.

“This has in fact become a war on children, especially those too small to be able to read a warning even if there was one.”

Mr Harris went on to give this message to parents: “Now that you know what the local Communists are aiming at, you should take every precaution to prevent your children picking up or touching tins, boxes, bundles or anything like that which they come across in the street.”

The bomb which killed the Wong children was one of four reported in the Bayview Division yesterday. It was of considerable power judging by the way the children were mangled by the blast.

Ballistics experts who went to the scene immediately afterwards have not yet obtained any clues as to its nature.

A bomb which was found in Hing Fat Street half an hour later was dismantled, however, and found to contain about a pound of gelignite packed tightly into a paint tin. It was well-made, with an electrical circuit, designed to explode if handled, and it also had a device intended to prevent it being dismantled.

Earlier yesterday, two men and a boy were injured in another bomb explosion outside the News Building in King’s Road, North Point.

The injured men are Ho Fook-lei, 58, Ho Chi-man, 45, and a 14-year-old boy, Woo Fu-chi.

They were admitted to Queen Mary Hospital where their condition was described as “satisfactory,” last night.

In Kowloon a bomb was found at the Kowloon City roundabout at 2.10 am yesterday and the second one was found on an open ground opposite Block 13 of Lo Fu Ngam resettlement estate at 7.25 pm.

All were subsequently removed and dismantled by Army ammunition experts.

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SCMP, 21 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

'Murderous And Cowardly'

A Government spokesman, commenting on the latest Communist outrage last night, said: “This latest and most cowardly murder must now be added to the list of crimes committed by people who can now be regarded as nothing but criminals of the lowest sort. Certainly they could hardly lay claim to any serious purpose in a campaign which is pursued by such murderous and cowardly means.

“It will be interésting to see whether those local newspapers which boast so disgustingly of murder and maiming will include this latest murder of two innocent Chinese children among their proud record of patriotic heroisms.’’

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SCMP, 21 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Reuter Man Still Under House Arrest

Peking, Aug. 20.

Mr Anthony Grey, 28-year-old Reuter correspondent, was deprived of his telephone over the weekend. He has been under house arrest since July 21.

A British diplomat tried to contact Mr Grey today but failed.

A group of Red Guards entered Mr Grey’s house on Friday night and yesterday morning his telephone was dead. Questioned, a telephone operator said: “This line has been cut.”

- Reprisal -

The Red Guard foray was presumed to have been staged in reprisal for the closing of Communist newspapers in Hongkong.

A police guard said today that Mr Grey was still in the house. One policeman could be seen behind the house door, which was ajar.

The door and the roof are covered with posters and slogans.—AFP,

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SCMP, 21 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Ultimatum To Lift Ban On Newspaper

London, Aug. 20.

China tonight gave Britain a 48-hour ultimatum to lift the suspension imposed on three Communist newspapers in Hongkong on August 17.

According to Radio Peking, the ultimatum was handed to the British Charge d'Affaires in Peking, Mr Donald Hopson, when he was summoned to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.—Reuter.

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SCMP, 21 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

POLICE REMOVE EXPLOSIVES FROM BUILDING SITES

The police have removed for safe custody all explosives and detonators from the Colony’s construction sites and private dangerous goods stores.

The action taken on Saturday afternoon, followed the theft of a large quantity of explosives from a construction site at Repulse Bay that morning.

Two men, believed to be Communists, broke into the construction site, bound and gagged a watchman after overpowering him and took away 360 slicks of lignite and detonators.

On Wednesday, a large number of gelignites, some black powder and a number of fuses were stolen from a dangerous goods store in Tin Hau Temple Hill, near Summit Court.

A police spokesman said last night that no arrest had been made and none of the explosives had been recovered in both cases.

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SCMP, 21 Aug 1967 (Page 10)

BORDER INCIDENTS AS SEEN BY H.K. CHINESE NEWSPAPERS

THE joint action taken by Army and Police units in dealing with recent border incidents provoked by villagers crossing from Chinese territory was fully endorsed by all independent Hongkong Chinese newspapers last week.

The Communist newspapers, however, claimed that the incidents during which restraint was exercised by servicemen and policemen to avoid bloodshed were a victory for the villagers’ upholding of the thoughts of Mr Mao.

FALSE PICTURE

The same newspapers, giving their readers a false picture of the events by reporting the closure of the entire length of the frontier except at Lowu, protested in their editorial and news columns against what they described as “anti-China” actions.

The Wen Wei Pao, the Ta Kung Pao and other fellow-traveller newspapers attributed the disruption of supplies of foodstuffs from China to the “closure of the border” by the Hongkong authorities.

The midday independent newspaper, Truth Daily, said that the incidents at Mankamto were provocations and reflected the resourcelessness of those who inspired and directed the villagers. It seemed, added the newspaper, that the leftists now had to rely on their “rural comrades” to prolong their “struggle.”

Truth Daily, the Wah Kiu Yat Po and the New Life Evening Post commended Police and Army personnel for the restraint and patience they exercised and also approved of the repudiation of a document their officers were forced to sign at gun point at Mankamto.

The New Life Evening Post cautioned the leftists against interpreting this restraint as weakness, pointing out that the people involved were mostly ignorant villagers against whom strong action would have been unwise.

The Kung Sheung Yat Po advised Government to speed up the issue of information on incidents such as those that occurred at the border to frustrate false and distorted reports put out by the Communist newspapers.

The New Life Evening Post criticised bystanders who gather in crowds when the Police are carrying out raids against lawless elements. These bystanders, it said, unwittingly obstruct the Police in carrying out their duties and indirectly aid the ruffians. They should change their ways immediately.

- RED SCHOOLS -

The Kung Sheung Yat Po also called on Government to introduce concrete measures to help pupils from Communist-run schools to gain places in other schools.

The Wah Kiu Yat Po urged that greater efforts be made to promote food production in the New Territories. It suggested that Government should join private enterprise to encourage the cultivation of various food crops.

While the Tin Tin Daily hoped for a relaxation of water supply restrictions, the New Life Evening Post agreed that there were sound reasons for maintaining the present limitations on supply hours.

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21 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

UK, MAOISTS COOPERATE TO SUPPRESS HONG KONG

Moscow Radio Peace and Progress in Mandarin to China 1100 GMT 15 August 1967--T

(Text) Serious incidents have occurred in Hong Kong for many months, The colony's labor-management dispute and the opposition against the Hong Kong British authorities show that the broad masses of people are leading a frightfully poor life and are being deprived of their rights.

Facts have proven that despite the noisy Maoist denunciation of imperialists and colonialists and the noisy anti-British demonstrations, no action has been taken to minimize the hardships of the Hong Kong compatriots. It is noteworthy that the person representing the Hong Kong Chinese people in the National People's Congress is neither a Communist Party member nor a citizen, but the British colony's wealthiest capitalist, Fei I-ming. Therefore, it is not difficult to contemplate how he is safeguarding the rights of Hong Kong's working class.

Recent facts have proven that the Maoist government is definitely not prepared to liberate Hong Kong. The world press has reported that not long ago, a meeting took place in Peking in which Mao Tse-tung resolutely rejected the suggestion to interfere in the Hong Kong incident. Mao Tse-tung agreed with Chen I's stand. Chen I said that if Hong Kong remains in British hands, it can provide China with an important new purpose. Thus, the entire issue rests on the Maoists' considering Hong Kong not the gateway to trade with the capitalist world.

Financial experts have estimated that 300 million pounds sterling worth of foreign remittance annually flow into the Maoist coffer through Hong Kong. It is noteworthy that the recent incidents in Hong Kong have not actually affected in any way the colony's economy and trace, For example, (words indistinct) when the situation in the city became acute, Maoists gained 22 percent (words indistinct) through Hong Kong.

It is worth pointing out that since the start of the ill-famed so-called cultural revolution, the Maoists have reinforced the defenses along Hong Kong's border in order to prevent Red Guards from entering Hong Kong. They fear that the Red Guards might disrupt Hong Kong's normal life. After having reached an agreement with the Maoists, Hong Kong's colonial authorities adopted similar measures. According to various reports, Mao Tse-tung and his group transferred to the border about two divisions of troops to prevent Red Guards from marching into Hong Kong.

That Wu Shu-tung, former president of a Hong Kong pro-Maoist publishing house, not long ago (? revealed that the Maoists wish to let Hong Kong remain a British colony so that through it they might maintain international contacts with capitalist countries /words indistinct/ proves there had been much concern.)

Wu Shu-tung frequently has gone to Peking to meet officials. For instance. it recently was reported that in November 1966, Wu Shu-tung met with Chou En-lai and others faithful to Mao Tse-tung. At a recent press conference, Wu Shu-tung said, "Peking's leading persons told me that China is not prepared to control Hong Kong" and that China is not planning to extend the so-called cultural revolution to British territory.

It must be pointed out that the anti-British imperialist activities of the Hong Kong working class took Mao Tse-tung completely by surprise, Since Mao Tse-tung is helpless in preventing the activities and since he is unable to come up with other alternatives, there is only the eight-article statement which pays lip service to the so-called support for the Hong Kong Chinese people's struggle.

At the same time, there have been reports that the Mao Tse-tung group and Britain conducted secret negotiations and made promises guaranteeing Hong Kong's peace and security. The British colonial authorities returned this good gesture by handing over to the Maoists more than 100 leaders and activists who took part in the Hong Kong proletariat struggle against imperialist oppression and the colonial system of deprivation of rights.

Mao Tse-tung has locked up all these people in his concentration camps.

Hong Kong’s leftist force, which is trying its best to overthrow the British authorities on the traditionally Chinese soil, looks toward Peking for major assistance, including military assistance. However, Mao Tse-tung and his followers have assured the British colonialists that Peking will not provide Hong Kong insurgents with any form of military support.

Everyone knows that all the anti-British demonstrations end activities in Peking and other Chinese cities organized by the Maoists merely aim at diverting public attention.

At the time when the anti-British movement in Peking was strong, British Foreign Office representative in Parliament (?Rodwells) said that Britain is not contemplating breaking relations with the People's Republic of China. British politicians feel that with Mao Tse-tung and his group on one side end the British imperialists on the other, together exerting their efforts, disturbances by Hong Kong's working class can be quickly suppressed to the satisfaction of both Peking and London.

Hong Kong is a malignant tumor on the Chinese body. It hopes to prosper continuously by relying on close connections and secret deals between Mao Tse-tung and imperialism.

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21 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

HONG KONG PROTESTS UK CEASE-PUBLICATION ORDER
CPR Ultimatum

Peking NCNA International Service in English 1802 GMT 20 August 1967--W

(Text) Peking--20 August--D.C. Hopson, charge d'affaires of the office of the British charge d'affaires in Peking was this evening summoned to the Foreign Ministry of the CPR where he was handed a note by the leading member of the ministry's Department of West Europe Affairs. The text of the note follows:

The CPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs asks the office of the British charge d'affaires immediately to transmit the following to the British Government.

The British authorities in Hong Kong have carried out a series of frantic political persecutions against the patriotic Chinese press and journalists in Hong Kong. This has now developed to an extremely grave extent.

During the past two months and more, the British authorities have, by means of illegal kidnapping, unwarrantedly arrested Hsueh Ping, Chen Feng-ying, Chen Te-mu and Lo Yu-ho, correspondents of the Hong Kong branch of NCNA, Liu Chu-ping and Huang I-liu, reporters of WEN WEI PAO; Tan Szu-chun, Lo Hsiang-jung, and Wang Ning, reporters for TA KUNG PAO; Liang Li-i and Kuang Pao-wen reporters for the NEW EVENING POST: Chen Tzu-feng, reporter of the HONG KONG COMMERCIAL DAILY; Wu Tsai-cheng, reporter of the daily CHING PO; and Hsu Yun-cheng, correspondent of the ECONOMIC REPORTER. In a further arbitrary move on 9 August, the British authorities illegally arrested Hu Ti-chou, director of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS; Pan Huai-wei, director, and Chen Yen-chuan, publisher of the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS; Li Siao-hsiung, chairman of the board of directors of the Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd. and publisher of the HONG KONG COMMERCIAL DAILY, and Chai Nuan-hui, manager of the company. On 17 August, the British authorities went so far as to brazenly order the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS, and the AFTERNOON NEWS to cease publication and initiated illegal lawsuits against TA KUNG PAO, the daily CHING PO, the Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd., and the Hong Kong Press Enterprise Ltd., which undertook the printing of patriotic Chinese newspapers. On 19 August, the British authorities again dispatched armed police and special agents to assault the offices of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS, and the AFTERNOON NEWS and illegally arrested 34 staff members of these papers.

The towering crimes committed by the British authorities in sanguinarily suppressing the patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong and Kowloon have aroused indignation among all the Chinese people. It is entirely just for the patriotic Chinese press and journalists in Hong Kong and Kowloon to report truthfully and expose these fascist atrocities, as it is their sacred duty to do so. The British authorities in Hong Kong bitterly hate and mortally dread them, and have now concocted various trumped-up charges to carry out all kinds of brutal political persecution against them in an attempt to suppress patriotic opinion and muffle the voice of justice and truth. This can only serve to thoroughly reveal before the people of the world the British Governments utterly hideous and ferocious features as fascist imperialism.

The Chinese Government hereby once again lodges the most urgent and the strongest protest with the British Government and solemnly states that the British Government and the British authorities in Hong Kong must, within 48 hours, cancel tie ban on the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS, and the AFTERNOON NEWS, declare the above-mentioned 195 patriotic Chinese journalists and 34 staff members innocent and set them free, call off the illegal lawsuits against TA KUNG PAO, the daily CHING PO, Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd., and the Hong Kong Press Enterprise LTD., and make it possible for all the above-mentioned papers and printing companies to resume their normal operation. Otherwise, the British Government must be held responsible for all the consequences arising therefrom.

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21 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

NCNA Protest

Peking NCNA International Service in English 1905 GMT 19 August 1967--W

(Text) Hong Kong 19 August--The Hong Kong branch of NCNA today issued a statement lodging the strongest protest with the British fascist authorities in Hong Kong for their barbarous persecution of patriotic papers and journalists. The statement exposed the British authorities! scheme of using the trumped up charge of "slander" to take "legal" action against the papers TA KUNG PAO and CHING PO, the Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd. and the Hong Kong Press Enterprise Ltd.

The statement stressed that "it is the sacred and absolutely inviolable duty of patriotic Chinese papers to propagate the thought of Mao Tse-tung and to spread news about the struggle of patriotic Chinese against British violence. We firmly support the struggle waged by patriotic journalists in Hong Kong and Kowloon and their joint statements issued on 9 and 17 August.

The statement warned the British authorities that they must immediately release the five responsible members of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS, HONG KONG COMMERCIAL DAILY and the Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd. whom the British authorities kidnaped on 9 August, and immediately release the journalists of NCNA and patriotic papers who are still in British prisons. The statement demanded that the British authorities promptly revoke their "order" to suspend publication of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the AFTERNOON NEWS and the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS and immediately stop their political persecution of TA KUNG PAO, the CHING PO, the Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd., the Hong Kong Press Enterprise Ltd. and all other patriotic papers. "The British authorities must apologize and compensate for the losses suffered by all persecuted patriotic papers and journalists and ensure that no similar incidents occur in the future. Otherwise the British authorities will be even more severely punished by the patriots in Hong Kong and the 790 million Chinese people," the statement declared.

The statement pointed out that the patriotic papers and journalists in Hong Kong had held high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought and had actively propagated it among the broad masses of Chinese in Hong Kong in their fight against British violence. They had made outstanding contributions to mobilizing and organizing the masses and to exposing and hitting back at the enemy. "It is sheer wishful thinking for the British fascist authorities in Hong Kong to try to prevent the propagation of the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung and to stamp out the fierce flames kindled by the patriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon against British violence."

"Our great leader Chairman Mao points out: In the final analysis, their. persecution of the revolutionary people only serves to accelerate the people's revolutions on a broader and more intense scale," the statement said.

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21 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

Workers’ Students’ Protest

Peking NCNA International Service in English 2036 GMT 20 August 1967--B

(Text) Hong Kong, 20 August--Workers and staff of the three patriotic Chinese papers illegally ordered to suspend publication by the British Hong Kong authorities and wide sections of patriotic Chinese here have vehemently protested against the British authorities' fascist persecution of the patriotic press and demanded the immediate cancellation of the: order and the release of the arrested journalists. The three patriotic Chinese papers are the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the AFTERNOON NEWS and the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS.

The workers and staff of these papers have sternly accused the British Hong Kong authorities of illegally suspending the three newspapers by "court" order on 17 August and have also denounced the British authorities for brazenly dispatching hundreds of police and special agents to break into their premises and carry out illegal searches and the arrests of over 30 of their workers and staff members on 19 August.

They point out that this was another and even more serious political persecution following the illegal kidnaping of five leading members of the three papers on 9 August. The workers and staff members of the three newspapers said at a meeting that they were determined to continue the struggle against British imperialist violence till the vicious British imperialists confess their crimes.

Representatives of the WEN WEI PAO, TA KUNG PAO, HSIN WAN PAO, CHING PO praised their colleagues for their dauntless spirit and solemnly declared that their right to spread the thought of Mao Tse-tung and the valiant struggle of their Hong Kong compatriots was inviolable. The British authorities, they said, tried to stifle the voice of the patriotic struggle against British imperialist violence through such fascist means as "suspension" of newspapers and journals, but in this they will never succeed. They pledged to close ranks with the workers and staff of the three newspapers and help to defeat and discredit the Hong Kong British fascist authorities. The frenzied persecution of Hong Kong patriotic journalists by the British Hong Kong authorities has filled patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong with indignation. They have written to the press that they will stand by the journalists, fight together with them, and carry the struggle against the British persecution to the end. A group of patriotic workers said in their letter: "Tearing aside the veil of false democracy, the British Hong Kong authorities have brazenly ordered the three newspapers to suspend publication. We will never permit this. The sacred right of our fellow countrymen in Hong Kong to propagate the thought of Mao Tse-tung and to carry on the struggle against British violence can never be encroached upon by anyone, if the British authorities try to deprive us of our rights, we will redouble our counterattack.”

A letter from patriotic film workers denounced the British Hong Kong authorities for viciously suspending the publication of the newspapers and persecuting patriotic journalists. The British authorities hopes that, by doing so, they would suppress the high tide of the study and propagation of Mao Tse-tung's thought among the Chinese in Hong Kong and Kowloon and stamp out the vigorous struggle against British violence. But they could sever achieve their aim.

The film workers expressed their resolute support for the joint statement issued by the three persecuted newspapers and lauded their determination to give full news coverage to their Hong Kong compatriots' struggle against British violence in cooperation with other patriotic newspapers.

In another letter patriotic students demanded that the British Kong Kong authorities revoke the order to suspend publication of the three newspapers and release all the arrested patriotic journalists. The students said that they would put out more small newspapers of different sorts to publicize Mao Tse-tung's thought more extensively u effectively as their concrete action to support the patriotic newspapers.

Patriotic workers in publishing, banking, and tracing circles also wrote letters to voice their determination to stand firmly at the side of the patriotic journalists and help them to continue to run the newspapers, no matter how desperately the British Hong Kong authorities persecute then.

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21 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

Journalists' Protest

Peking NCNA International Service in English 2119 GMT 18 August 1967--B

(Text) Hong Kong, 18 August--The illegal suspension imposed on three Hong Kong Chinese papers by the British authorities has been sharply condemned by patriotic Chinese journalists and other residents here. Using the trumped up charge of continuing to publish incentive news," the British authorities yesterday illegally ordered the suspension of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the AFTERNOON NEWS, and the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS. This is o:.e more Wild political persecution by the British authorities, following their recent kidnapping and illegal trial of patriotic joursalists.

Defying the British “order," the workers and staff of the three papers put out a combined paper today. The front page features a joint statement by the struggle committees as the workers and staff of the three papers and a joint message to patriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon. They lodged the strongest protest with the British authorities.

The joint statement declared: "The three papers are determined to continue publication in order to carry out their sacred obligation to spread Mao Tse-tung's thought and to propagate the news of the anti-British violence struggle. The papers are determined to safeguard national dignity, hit back at the British authorities, and, along with ail patriotic fellow countrymen, fight the enemy and gain victory!"

The statement quoted Chairman Mao's teaching: "The epoch we are living in is an epoch in which the imperialist system is heading for total collapse, the imperialists have fallen inextricable into crisis, and, no matter how they continue to oppose the Chinese people, the Chinese people will always have a way to win final victory.

It warned the authorities that "the Chinese people, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, are invincible!" and that "the day of reckoning for the British imperialists, tilling accomplices of the US imperialists, is not far off!"

The papers stated in their message to patriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon: "The British Hong Kong authorities! order absolutely cannot suppress our firm determination to battle British violence to the finish. With the 700 million Chinese people and all the oppressed people in the world behind us, we are sure to win and the British Hong Kong authorities are sure to be defeated!"

Fourteen Chinese newspapers and printing companies here have also issued a joint statement, lodging a strong protest with the British authorities. The statement condemned then for illegally suspending publication of the three Chinese papers in an attempt to close them down for good. "Moreover, the British authorities are attempting to use the illegal suspension to intimidate all patriotic journalists and persecute all other patriotic Chinese papers," it said.

The joint statement sternly warned the British authorities that they must immediately stop their outrages or Chinese patriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon would never let then escape without severe punishment. It declared: "No one can deprive us of our right to propagate Mao Tse-tung!'s thought and print the news about the heroic anti-British violence struggle. The British imperialists have put nooses round their necks! At the call of the motherland we are ready at any time to draw the nooses tighter and smash their fascist reactionary rule!" The 14 papers and printing companies include WEN WEI PAO, TA KUNG PAO, HSIN WAN PAO, CETNG PO, HONG KONG COMMERCIAL DAILY, CHENG WU PAO, ECONOMIC REPORTER, CHAU HUT PAO, the Nam Cheung Printing Co., Ltd., and the Yau Lee Printing Co., Lt.

In a statement today, the committee of Hong Kong-Kowloon conpatriots of all circles for the struggle against British persecution called for resolutely hitting hack at the fascist British Hong Kong authorities. It solemnly declared: "The British authorities’ suspension order imposed on the three papers is completely illegal! Their arrest, trial, and sentencing of Chinese journalists and other patriots are also completely illegal! The British authorities must immediately revoke all their illegal measures and admit their crimes! Otherwise they will be fully responsible for all the serious consequences!

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21 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

PEOPLE'S DAILY: HONG KONG IS CHINESE TERRITORY

Peking NCNA International Service in English 0141 GMT 20 August 1967—B

(Text) Peking, 20 August--"Hong Kong is Chinese Territory" is the title of a commentary in the PEOPLE'S DAILY today. Full text of the commentary follows:

The British imperialist radio stations and newspapers in Hong Kong have recently been frenziedly babbling that Hong Kong is "British territory," that numbers of people’s communes in Kwangtung Province were "encroaching upon" “British territory” when they went to farm their land in the "New Territories," and that the Chinese people were "interfering with the domestic affairs of Hong Kong" when they supported their fellow countrymen there in their struggle against British atrocities. This is nothing but gangsters’ language; it is a grave provocation against the Chinese people.

Hong Kong has been Chinese territory since ancient times. This is a fact known to all, old and young, in the world. More than a century ago, British imperialism came to China by pirate ships, provoked the criminal “opium war,” massacred numerous Chinese people and occupied the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. Later it snapped the Chinese territory of Kowloon and the Chinese territory of the "New Territories." This is an enormous blood debt British imperialism owes to the Chinese people. Sooner or later, the Chinese people will make a thorough-going liquidation of this debt with British imperialism.

Because Hong Kong has always been Chinese territory and was occupied by the British imperialists, the peasants of Kwangtung Province living near the "New Territories” have for generations tilled the land there. Now the British imperialists have gone so far as to call this an “encroachment" "upon British territory.“ This is absolutely preposterous! Have members of our people's communes gone to till the land on the British isles? They have not taken a step out of their own country. On the contrary, it is the British imperialists who have come from thousands of miles away to seize our land by force and kill our compatriots. We must tell the British imperialists that not only have the Chinese peasants the traditional right to till the land in the "New Territories," but the whole of Hong Kong must return to the domain of the motherland.

This is not the old era when the British colonialists seized Hong Kong by force. Our compatriots in Hong Kong have the powerful backing of their strong socialist ‘motherland. How can it be imagined that Hong Kong will always be under the rule of British imperialism? Of course it can't; it is absolutely unthinkable. It is idiotic wishful thinking for the British imperialist to imagine that they can prevent the great Chinese people from assisting their Hong Kong compatriots! fight against British violence. Hong Kong is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, and our compatriots in Hong Kong are blood brothers and sisters of the Chinese people. The Chinese people cannot possibly turn a deaf ear to the British imperialists’ fascist atrocities of barbarously suppressing our countrymen in Hong Kong.

Today the fate of Hong Kong is in the hands of the Chinese people and our countrymen in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's affairs must be decided by the Chinese people and our countrymen in Hong Kong. It is absolutely impermissible for British imperialism to ride roughshod over Hong Kong!

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21 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

COMMENTATOR SCORES UK HONG KONG POLICY

Peking NCNA International Service in English 0859 GMT 21 August 1967--W

(Text) Peking, 20 August--"Unmask the Cunning and Deceitful Face of British Imperialism" is the title of Commentator's article in today's PEOPLE'S DAILY. The article denounces the dual counterrevolutionary tactics of British imperialism proclaimed by British Foreign Minister George Brown at a recent press conference in Norway. The text of commentator's article follows:

At a press conference held on 16 August in Norway British Foreign Minister George Brow arrogantly announced: "We are determined to maintain and defend our interests in Hong Kong." At the same time he declared that Britain "intended" to "maintain relations" with China and "work to improve them." This is typical of dual counterrevolutionary tactics, in which the British imperialists, old hands at trickery and deception, are very skilled.

According to Brown, British imperialism can wield the butcher’s knife and perpetrate bloody suppression of our patriotic countrymen in Hong Kong and can at the same time "maintained relations" with China and "work to improve them." This is the calculation based on only wishful thinking!

During the past three months and more, the British Hong Kong right fascist authorities have carried out a shocking, barbarous suppression of our patriotic countrymen. They have slaughtered, arrested and kidnapped patriotic countrymen, deliberately demolished, raided, and ransacked the offices of patriotic Chinese trade unions and other organisations, closed down patriotic newspapers, illegally arrested patriotic newspaper correspondents, and carried out serious political persecution of correspondence of the Hong Kong branch of China's NCNA. Can this be tolerated? British imperialism has heaped insults on all country men and carried out mad acts of provocation against the Chinese people. Can the Chinese people be expected to turn a blind eye to all these?

At the same time as British imperialism has been suppressing our countrymen in Hong Kong, it has incessantly carried out acts of armed provocation and created incidents in the border areas. This has left the Chinese people with no alternative but to counter-attack. The Sha Tau Kok incident and the hard blows delivered at the British Hong Kong aggressive troops by workers at Man Kam To and the peasants of Lofang village are only minor lessons which the Chinese people taught the British imperialist in Hong Kong.

Our journalist has repeatedly sent notes to the British government on the events that have taken place in Hong Kong and launched the strongest protests and issued most serious warnings. Yesterday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry sent another official note to the British government demanding that they and the British authorities in Hong Kong must cancel the ban on the three patriotic newspapers, within 48 hours, released the arrested journalists and abandon the illegal lawsuits against the patriotic papers and printing companies, and make it possible for all the persecuted newspapers and printing companies to resume normal operation.

The Chinese people once again sternly warn the British imperialist that they must act accordingly or the British government will be held responsible for all the consequences.

We want to tell Brown and his like: Hong Kong is China's territory. Those living in Hong Kong are our compatriots. If you try to separate the wanton crimes what do you have committed in Hong Kong from the question of relations between China and Britain, you are daydreaming and this will never be tolerated.

Although the two sides, China and Britain, have exchanged diplomatic representatives for more than 10 years, Sino-British relations today still remain in a stage of semi-establishment of diplomatic relations as a result of the British government's consistent following of US imperialism, its playing of double-faced tactics and ferocious opposition to China. Now the British imperialists are again carrying on wanton suppression of our Hong Kong compatriots. Does this not disclose their intention to completely sabotage relations between China and Britain?

Our great leader Chairman Mao points out: "Though they engaged in counterrevolutionary activities every day, the governments of imperialist countries had never told the truth in their statements or official documents, but had filled or at least flavored them with professions of humanity, justice, and virtue. This is still true of British imperialism, an old hand at trickery and deception, as well as of several other smaller imperialist countries.” This pointedly exposes the hypocritical features, trickery, and deception of British imperialism.

We assure the British Government that the great Chinese people are determined to support their Hong Kong compatriots. No matter how frenzied, tricky and deceptive British imperialism is, it cannot escape its doom!

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SCMP, 22 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Bomb Blast Damages Newspaper’s Van

A Wah Kiu Yat Po van parked outside the newspaper's reception office in Canton Road, Mongkok, was severely damaged by a bomb early this morning.

The explosion, which occurred at 12.30 am, ripped the front part and seats of the van. The windows of the reception office on the ground floor of 967 Canton Road, as well as those on the first and second floors, were also shattered by the blast.

Police later found an electric wire leading from underneath the van across the road to a construction site opposite.

No-one was hurt in the explosion.

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SCMP, 22 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Maudling On H.K.’s Importance

London, Aug. 21.

Mr Reginald Maudling, the Conservative “Shadow” Commonwealth Secretary, said in an interview today that Britain should continue to invest in Hongkong.

He told the London Daily Mail’s City Editor that Hongkong is important to both Britain and China and the trade the two nations could do with each other, through Hongkong, was potentially great.

Mr Maudling, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: “We must always have some kind of positive contact with China, and if, because of the present political troubles, it is difficult for it to be on a diplomatic level, it should be through trade channels.

“The Chinese, don’t forget, are good payers and China is a good market for British products.” Mr Maudling added.---Reuter.

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SCMP, 22 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

REWARD OFFERED FOR ARREST OF KILLERS

The police yesterday offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the killing of two children by a bomb explosion in North Point on Sunday.

Any person who has information that can assist the police in their enquiries should contact the CID, Headquarters, Hongkong Island, telephone No 234011, extension 321, or make a report to any police station.

A two-year-old boy, Wong Siu-fan, and his eight-year-old sister, Wong Yee-man, were killed in the explosion in Ching Wah Street near Kiangsu and Chekiang College at 5.45 pm.

The girl was killed instantaneously while the boy died on the way to hospital.

Meanwhile, yesterday's leftwing press made no mention of the North Point explosion that killed the two children.

The front pages of the Communist newspapers were devoted to the Chinese Foreign Ministry's protest over the arrest of left-wing newspaper executives and reporters in Hongkong.

The Communist press have in the past given extensive coverage of reports by “volunteer reporters” of bomb explosions and incidents following their occurrence.

The senseless killing of the two children has incurred the wrath and anger of many residents who telephoned various newspapers protesting at the dastardly act committed by the Communists.

Some residents offered to contribute toward funeral expenses for the victims while others expressed their wish to attend the funeral.

In Kowloon early yesterday, a white cloth banner protesting at the death of the children, appeared next to a Communist book store in Nathan Road.

- Responsibility -

The banner, bearing the characters: “The Hongkong Anti-Persecution Committee must bear full responsibility for the Ching Wah Street killing.” was found hanging on a wall near the Student Book Store in Nathan Road near its junction with Waterloo Road.

Earlier at 6.30 am four young people, two boys and two girls, claiming to be pupils of Hon Wah School, were arrested by police outside Alhambra Building, Nathan Road, where on one of them, a bomb was found with Chinese characters reading “Patriotic compatriots don't come near.”

The young people, police said, would be charged under a provision of the Emergency Regulations which provide for a maximum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment.

The bomb was later detonated by a ballistics officer.

Following Sunday's bomb outrage, the Communists yesterday stepped up their planting of bombs in various parts of the Colony.

More bombs were found yesterday and were later detonated by police.

On the Island, a bomb was found in Leighton Road near the Police Recreation Club.

Forty minutes later, in Leighton Road near Haven Road, a “purse” bomb was found at a construction site.

At 6.50 am, a banner with inflammatory words and two bombs attached to it were found on the pedestrian bridge in Causeway Bay.

After the bombs were exploded torn pages of the Wen Wei Pao were found.

At 8.30 am, two bombs contained in two paper boxes, were found at the roundabout in Island Road near Shaukiwan and were later exploded.

About the same time, police ballistics personnel exploded a bomb found in Johnston Road near Fleming Road.

Two bombs, one of them a fake, were found in the Hongkong Dispensary of A. S. Watson & Co Ltd in Gloucester Arcade shortly before 3 pm. The genuine bomb was exploded in the arcade after sand bags were placed in the area. The explosion rocked the building.

In Kowloon, an explosion occurred outside the rear portion of the Royal Hongkong Jockey Club Clinic in Hip Woo Street near Kun Tong Road about 12.10 am yesterday.

Several windows of the clinic were shattered by the blast.

Later at 8 am, a bomb was found near the Olympic Garden in the Kowloon City roundabout underground subway. It was later exploded.

An hour later, two bombs were found hanging on a banner hoisted on a fence in the basketball court of a playground in Matauwei near Sung Wong Toi, Kowloon City. The bombs were exploded.

Police early yesterday morning, under a warrant issued under the Emergency Regulations, searched a flat in Tsun Wan and seized some documents and crude weapons. No arrests were made.

The search at 11 Sai Lau Street, third floor, Tsun Wan, was made shortly after 2.30 am.

Meanwhile, the police, who arrested two persons in a raid on six premises in Taipo on Saturday, arrested a third man in Po Yik Street, Taipo, shortly before 11 am yesterday.

He has been detained for questioning, a police spokesman said.

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SCMP, 22 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

U.K. Will Not Accept Peking Protest
DEMAND TO LIFT ‘BAN’ ON NEWSPAPERS

London, Aug. 21.

Britain has refused to accept a strong Chinese Note protesting about the treatment of three “banned” pro-Peking newspapers and pro-Peking journalists in Hongkong, a British Foreign Office spokesman said today.

Mr Donald Hopson, British Charge d’Affaires in Peking, refused to accept the Note when he was called to the Foreign Ministry yesterday to be given it, British officials said.

The Note also contained a demand that the three “banned” pro-Peking newspapers be allowed to resume publication in Hongkong within 48 hours.

(A Hongkong Government spokesman pointed out yesterday that the newspapers had not been “banned” but were being prosecuted through the courts under the ordinary law.)

Mr Hopson rejected the protest Note and refused to receive it because it was couched in non-diplomatic language.

- Warning Given -

Britain warned China today that she was responsible for the security of Britain's diplomatic mission in Peking and for British nationals on Chinese territory. Mr Shen Ping, the Chinese Charge d’Affaires, was called to the Foreign Office this afternoon to receive a Note to that effect, British officials announced.

A Foreign Office spokesman specifically referred to Reuters correspondent in Peking, Mr Anthony Grey, who has been restricted to his home since July 21.---All Agencies.

(Asked to comment on the Chinese demand, a Hongkong Government spokesman said yesterday that any statement on the matter should come from the British Government.

He said, however, that “on a matter of fact it seems possible that officials in Peking may have been misinformed, perhaps even deliberately, about recent court cases.”

- Different -

He said that no action had been taken against any journalists as such but against people charged with offences against the law.

He said that the three newspapers were being prosecuted through the courts under the ordinary law.

“All this is quite different from the implications of the Peking statement when it speaks of ‘bans’ on newspapers and ‘persecution’ of journalists.

“The extent of misinformation may indeed be deduced from the demand for the release of 34 people who, everyone else in the world knows, were released, without being charged, on Saturday," he said.)

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SCMP, 22 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Explosives Removed To Govt Stores

Stocks of explosives had been removed from licensed private stores to Government depots for safe keeping over the weekend, the Commissioner of Mines, said yesterday.

He said this was to prevent further thefts of explosives and in view of the recent bomb incidents.

Two private stores had been broken open during the past week and a quantity of explosives taken away.

The removal of the explosives from 88 stores over the weekend were carried out by officers of the Mines Department, the Police, the Marine Department and the Civil Aid Services.

A Mines Department spokesman said the storage of the explosives in Government depots would temporarily disrupt supplies to those who legitimately used explosives in their normal course of business.

However, arrangements were being made to issue explosives to operators of mines and quarries and to contractors.

“It is the intention to introduce these arrangements as quickly as possible but, because of the necessity to exercise strict control over the quantity of explosives released from depots, difficulties may arise in the next few days,” he said.

The spokesman said that operators and contractors who had such difficulties should telephone the Senior Explosives Officer at Tel K-841166.

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SCMP, 22 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Falsity Of Leftist Propaganda
TEACHERS TOLD TO WARN PUPILS

The Hon W. D. Gregg, Director of Education, urged teachers and civic leaders to warn school children about the falsity of left-wing propaganda when he opened the Hongkong Federation of Students’ Leadership Seminar yesterday.

Up to now, Government policy had been to avoid involving school children in political propaganda of any kind, he said.

“But in a situation in which continual attempts are being made to persuade young people that the Colony is living in a state of tyranny and oppression, and that they should throw overboard all the traditions of culture and morality and decent behaviour which their ancestors have valued for centuries, more positive steps must be taken,” he added.

Mr Gregg said that steps should be taken to demonstrate how the Government of Hongkong was dedicated to the happiness and well-being of all its citizens and had the declared support of the majority of the population.

Advocating an expansion of the scope of Hongkong’s teaching of civics, Mr Gregg said that education in public affairs had tended to concentrate on facts and details of public administration and the work of different departments and organisations.

- Wider Scope -

“This kind of study is still sound and necessary if we are to have an informed public. But now that the authority of the Government and its motives are being challenged, even though by a small minority prepared to use any means, however foul, to serve their ends, the scope of our teaching of civics must be enlarged.

“We must, for example, be prepared to explain and justify the basis of our constitution, the areas in which it is capable of modification and improvement, in the light of changing circumstances,” he said.

Mr Tsim Tak-lung, President of the Hongkong Federation of Students, said that many students were apathetic regarding students’ unions and that the Federation thought the time had come for a change in this attitude.

“We want students to know about the problems of Hongkong and to know how they can be tackled," he added.

The six-day seminar is being held at Northcote Training College.

Subjects to be discussed include the structure of the Hongkong Government, the United Nations and other international organisations, the role, structure and function of a students’ union, the social obligation of a students’ organisation, publicity techniques and parliamentary procedure.

Taking part in the seminar are four delegates from each non-member union, institute of higher education and inter-college student organisations.

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SCMP, 22 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Underground Papers Posted To Residents

Underground mimeograph newspapers have been sent to various people and organisations in the Colony by post since Saturday, it was learned yesterday.

The mimeographs were issued in the name of the three leftist newspapers which had been suspended by Government recently.

The New Evening Post, another left-wing newspaper, claimed in an article yesterday that about 40 mimeograph newspapers were in existence at present.

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SCMP, 23 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

BOMB VICTIMS
Personal Condolences Offered By Mr Gass

His Excellency, the Officer Administering the Government, Mr M. D. I. Gass, yesterday expressed his personal condolence to the parents of two children killed in the North Point explosion on Sunday.

In a letter to Mr and Mrs Wong Yiu-wing, the children’s parents, Mr Gass said:

“I write to say how deeply shocked and grieved I was to learn of the tragic death of your son and daughter in the senseless outrage which took place in North Point on Sunday afternoon. Whilst I know that nothing I can write can console you in your bereavement, I would like to offer you my most profound sympathy.”

In receiving the letter, Mr Wong said he was most grateful indeed to Mr Gass for his kindness.

Mr Wong, who was with Mrs Wong at the Tung Wah Hospital to make funeral arrangements, called on Communist agitators to “cease at once all their mad and senseless activities which only bring grief and suffering to parents.”

- Punishment -

He said residents would not stand such cowardly acts and would make sure that the trouble-makers were punished.

Also present at the Tung Wah Hospital yesterday were Mr Seaker Chan and Mr Siu Ming, President and Chairman of the North Point Kaifong Association, respectively.

Mr Chan presented, on behalf of the Kaifong Association, $300 to Mr and Mrs Wong. He also disclosed that his Association would be looking into other ways and means of helping the unfortunate family.

The North Point Kaifong Association has also promised to provide education for the Wong family’s two other children up to Primary Six.

The funeral service for the two children will take place at the Hongkong Funeral Home at 3 pm today.

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SCMP, 23 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Police Question Two Employees After Bomb

Two employees of the Hongkong Hilton were questioned by the police yesterday in connection with the discovery of two bombs inside a lift of the hotel.

The police carried out a search in the workmen's quarters of the hotel and later took two men to a police station for enquiries.

The first bomb was discovered about 11 am. Before the police arrived, the bomb exploded and injured a lift-serviceman.

The Interior of the lift was badly wrecked. The mirrors and some light fittings were shattered.

A short while later, a second bomb was found inside the same left and it was subsequently detonated by an Army ballistics expert.

A spokesman for the hotel later said that a member of the Hilton staff had blocked off the left and stopped it at the main lobby floor to prevent it from going to upper floors when the first bomb was found.

He said the hotel was strengthening its security staff as a precautionary measure.

“All lifts will be inspected on a 24-hour basis and all suspicious-looking people will be questioned,” he added.

Tourists at the Hilton reacted with admirable calm. “Now we've had both a typhoon and a bomb explosion --- we certainly can't complain of lack of excitement in Hongkong.” said one.

Mrs Stanley Siegal, who is on holiday with her husband and three children, said that the explosions had definitely not frightened her family to the extent that they would consider leaving the Colony.

For an American student, 10-year-old Miss Patricia Hill, the bomb happened to be a little too close for comfort --- she stepped out of the ill-fated lift shortly before the first bomb exploded.

“I didn't notice anything in the lift at the time but soon after I got out I heard the explosion,” she said.

Two other explosions occurred during the day.

The first one occurred in Canton Road near Shantung Street, Mongkok, about 12.30 am. A private car was badly damaged.

The other one occurred outside the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank branch office in Des Voeux Road West, Western district, about 6.10 am. A window pane was broken.

- Ferry Pier Find -

A fake bomb was found inside the “'Star” Ferry Pier, Edinburgh Place, about 5 pm. A tin was placed near the steps leading to the first class entrance.

A bomb was found on the tram track in Hennessy Road near Heard Street at 10.15 pm and another was found in King’s Road near the State Theatre shortly after 11 pm.

They were detonated by Army ammunition experts.

At 10.30 pm a bomb exploded outside the Causeway Bay Magistracy before the arrival of ammunition experts.

However, no casualties or damage were reported.

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SCMP, 23 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Red Leader Denies Responsibility
‘BOMBINGS NOT WORK OR STRUGGLE COMMITTEES’

A top Hongkong Communist leader last night denied that the recent spate of bombings was the work of the local “struggle committees” and said it was a “British Fascist lie” that the committee had ordered or directed the bombings.

Mr Fei Yi-ming, editor of the Ta Kung Pao, in an unprecedented press conference to which only a selected number of foreign correspondents were invited, detailed what he called “Fascist atrocities” of the British in Hongkong.

Mr Fei was apparently trying his best to disassociate the local Communist leadership from the terrorist bombing campaign which culminated in the death of two children on Sunday.

Mr Fei would not tell correspondents present why he had called a press conference, but observers here believe that the Communist leadership is worried about the wave of bitter indignation that has swept the Colony since the death of the two children.

- Shocked -

Chinese sources with left-wing contacts say that even pro-Communist Chinese and Communist sympathisers were shocked and repelled by the death of the children and the planting of bombs in playgrounds.

The sources say that local Communist leaders now realise that the bombing campaign is losing them more and more support every day.

On the subject of supply of food and water for the Colony, Mr Fei was reported to have repeatedly put the onus on Peking, saying that the supply of food and water was no long under Canton’s jurisdiction.

Even on the subject of Peking’s 48-hour demand to lift the “ban” on three Communist newspapers and the release of detained Communist publishers and journalists, Mr Fei said he had no knowledge of what the “serious consequences” Peking had threatened. “It is up to Peking.” he said.

Mr Fei added that it was now useless to negotiate locally on the political situation in Hongkong. It was now between London and Peking.

When further questioned on the bombing, Mr Fei again denied that the campaign was under the control of the anti-persecution struggle committee.

Mr Fei said that some bombs were placed by people hoping to throw the blame on to others. He did not elaborate.

Mr Fei said Hongkong’s prestige had been run down completely and its economy had suffered such serious damage that it would take at least three to five years to recover from it. Commenting on Mr Fei’s press conference, a Government spokesman said: “It is too late for these people to divert attention from the murders and other crimes they have committed and applauded and if that was the purpose of the press conference, it has failed miserably.”

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SCMP, 23 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Member Of ‘Struggle Committee’ Off To Japan

Mr Ko Cheuk-hung, Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and a member of the “Struggle Committee” left by air for Japan yesterday. He is expected to continue his trip, most likely to France, it was learned.

(Photo)

Mr Ko, formerly a medicine salesman, has been heading the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce since shortly after World War II.

When the “Struggle Committee" was organised in June, he made a formal announcement that he had empowered Mr K. C. Wong, the Vice-Chairman, to act on his behalf due to his poor health.

He appeared frequently at the Golden Crown Restaurant where he is the Managing Director.

Mr Ko is still a member of China’s People’s Political Consultative Conference.

He retains his membership in the “All-Circle Struggle Committee” and is a member of the Celebration Committee for the Chinese National Day on October 1. This latter appointment was announced in yesterday's left-wing newspapers.

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22 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

UK CLOSING OF PAPERS IN HONG KONG PROTESTED
Peking Journalists Demonstrate

Peking NCNA International Service in English 1836 GMT 21 August 1967--W

(Text) Peking, 21 August--Over 2,000 revolutionary journalists in Peking today demonstrated in front of the office of the British charge d'affaires, lodging the strongest protest against the British authorities in Hong Kong for their fascist persecution of Chinese patriotic journalism and journalists.

The demonstrators expressed high indignation at the wicked British imperialists and pledged resolute support for the note issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on 20 August. They solemnly warned the British Government that it must act according to the demands set forth in the note; within 48 hours, it must cancel the ban on the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS, and the AFTERNOON NEWS, and release the arrested Chinese patriotic journalists.

Foreign revolutionary journalists in the Chinese capital also took part in the demonstration.

Holding portraits of the great leader Chairman Mao Tse-tung and placards with slogans written in Chinese and English, the indignant demonstrators streamed to the British charge d'affaires! office and shouted: Resolutely support the struggle of our patriotic compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon against British imperialist violence!" “The British imperialists in Hong Kong must admit their crimes!" "The British Hong Kong authorities will be defeated! The Chinese people will win!" and "Down with US imperialism! Down with British imperialism! Down with Soviet revisionism!" Letters of protest were read aloud to British diplomatic officials by revolutionary journalists of the All-China Journalists Association, the Journal RED FLAG, PEOPLE'S DAILY, NCHA, the Broadcasting Administrative Bureau, LIBERATION ARMY DAILY, KWANG-MING DAILY, and PEKING DAILY. They pointed out unanimously that the British Hong Kong authorities would never succeed in their attempts to suppress Chinese patriotic journalism and journalists in Hong Kong, prevent the dissemination cf the great thought of Mao Tse-tung, and extinguish the fire of the Hong Kong-Kowloon compatriots' struggle against British imperialist violence.

Letters of protest stated that British imperialism, which ran in the wake of US imperialism and was playing an active role as accomplice of Johnson's administration in anti-China maneuvers, had been further intensifying its persecution of patriotic journalists and journalism in Hong Kong, ignoring the condemnation of the great Chinese people and the revolutionary people of the world. It was trying to strangle patriotic public opinion and to stifle the voice of truth and justice. This served only to expose more thoroughly than ever before to the people of the world the ugly and ferocious fascist features of British imperialism.

A letter of protest said: "Our great leader Chairman Mao, in referring to the reactionaries in all countries, has pointed out: ‘In the final analysis, their persecution of the revolutionary people only serves to accelerate the people's . revolutions on a broader and more intense scale.’ The British Hong Kong authorities’ high-handed persecution of our patriotic compatriots and patriotic newspapers and journalists cannot save them from their doom, On the contrary, it will only serve to arouse the patriotic Chinese and patriotic journalists in Hong Kong-Kowloon to greater indignation and hatred and to struggle on a broader and more intense scale, and thus hasten the destruction of British imperialism."

Revolutionary journalists in Peking warned the British imperialists that the 700 million Chinese people, armed with the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung, would never permit the British imperialists to ride roughshod over Hong Kong. If they persisted in their perverted action, they would only end in disaster. Revolutionary journalists in Peking, together with all the Chinese people, would staunchly support their patriotic countrymen and journalists in Hong Kong and Kowloon and resolutely support their just struggle till final victory.

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23 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

HUNG WEIPING INVADE, SACK BRITISH LEGATION

Moscow TASS International Service in Russian 1021 GMT 23 August 1967--L

(Text) London--Yesterday the Hung Weiping held demonstrations outside the British Legation in Peking and later invaded the premises and ransacked it. (The legation's building was burned down. According to foreign news agencies, some of the staff were wounded.) The demonstration and ransacking were organized in connection with the British Government's rejecting a protest note of the CPR Foreign Ministry of 20 August.

This note demanded that the British authorities in Hong Kong lift within 48 hours the ban on three local Chinese newspapers and release from arrest Chinese journalists.

Britain's minister of state for foreign affairs lodged a protest with the Chinese charge d’affairs in London against the attack on the British Legation in Peking. In reply, the British Government has restricted the movement of members of the Chinese mission in the country and banned their leaving Britain.

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23 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT UK LEGATION IN PEKING
Red Guards, Masses Demonstrate

Peking NCNA International Service in English 0256 GMT 23 August 1967--B

(Text) Peking, 22 August--Over 10,000 Red Guards and revolutionary masses in Peking surged to the office of the British charge d'affaires this evening in a mighty demonstration against the British imperialists' frantic fascist persecution of patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong.

A meeting in condemnation of the British imperialist anti-China crimes was held right in front of the office. The enraged demonstrators took strong actions against the British charge d'affaires office.

The meeting justly pointed out that the British Government was making a serious political provocation against the Chinese people by having dared to ignore the demands raised in the Chinese Foreign Ministry's note of 20 August, failed to revoke the order for the suspension of publication of three patriotic papers in Hong Kong, which was expected to be done within 48 hours, and refused to release the arrested patriotic journalists and withdraw the illegal "lawsuits" against patriotic papers and printing companies. The meeting stressed that the Chinese people meant what they said, that they would never allow the British imperialists to ride roughshod in Hong Kong, and that the British Government must bear full responsibility for all the serious consequences.

In front of the office the incensed masses shouted: "Down with British imperialism!" "Down with U.S. imperialism!" "Down with Soviet revisionism!" "Those who oppose China will come no good end!" "The Hong Kong British authorities are sure to be defeated!" "The Chinese people are sure to win!" "Resolutely support the struggle of the Hong Kong patriots against British imperialist violence!" and "The fascist British Hong Kong authorities must admit their crimes!"

Addressing the meeting, young Red Guard fighters and representatives of revolutionary workers expressed their determination to wage a firm tit-for-tat struggle against imperialism, modern revisionism, and reaction of all countries until complete victory.

They stressed that the time that imperialists could bully the Chinese people at will had gone forever. British imperialism was nothing but a paper tiger riddled with thousands of gazing wounds. The fascist British Hong Kong authorities! towering crimes and the blood debts they owned the Chinese people and the patriots in Hong Kong must be completely settled.

The meeting solemnly declared: "The sacred right of our patriotic countrymen in Hong Kong to propagate ‘Mao Tse-Tung's thought is inviolable!" The speakers pointed out that since the Launching of China's great proletarian cultural revolution, which had no parallel in history, the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung had been spread throughout the world on a still more extensive scale and its brilliance had illuminated the hearts of the world's revolutionary people In trying to blockade the voice of truth, prevent the dissemination of the great thought of Mao Tse-tung, and stamp out the flames of the Hong Kong patriots! anti-British violence struggle, the fascist British authorities had resorted to all kinds of despicable measures to persecute the patriotic press and journalists in Hong Kong.

The speakers declared that armed with Mao Tse-tung!'s thought the young Red Guards and the 790 million Chinese people were not to be bullied and not to be trifled with, that the patriots in Hong Kong, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, were not to be cowed and crushed, and that the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought would fly all over Hong Kong!

The proletarian revolutionaries paid high tribute to the patriots in Hong Kong for persevering in their struggle against British imperialist violence. They stated that She patriots in Hong Kong who had displayed the Chinese people's dauntless spirit, are the heroic sons and daughters of the motherland nurtured by Mao Tse-tung's thought.

They pointed out that "Hong Kong is part of China's territory." The heroic fight faced by the patriots in Hong Kong had shown that “the fate of Hong Kong is in the hands of the Chinese people." With the 700 million people of the motherland as their strong hacking, the patriots in Hong Kong would win final victory in their struggle against British repressive violence.

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The Straits Times, 23 August 1967, Page 1

Peking mobs storm British envoy's home

LONDON, Tues, — Several demonstrations took place today outside the British diplomatic mission in Peking, officials said here.

Small-scale Chinese demonstrations this morning turned into a large demonstration against Britain’s Hong Kong policies this afternoon.

Chinese police and military have restrained attempts by the British staff of the mission to leave the office and told them that if they did, they could not take responsibility. Families of the British diplomats are the diplomatic compounds and have not been molested.

- Rejected -

The demonstrations took place as the deadline expired for a 48-hour ultimatum from China to Britain demanding among other things, that three banned pro-Peking newspapers in Hong Kong be allowed to resume publication.

This demand was contained in a Chinese protest note which the British Charge d’Affaires, Mr. Donald Hopson, refused to accept because of its non-diplomatic language when called to the Peking Foreign Ministry on Sunday night.

Today's demonstrations began when the Chinese office and domestic staff of the British mission gathered in the grounds of the office.

They demanded that Mr. Hopson go out and receive a written protest against British policy in Hong Kong Colony.

Together with seven of his British staff, Mr. Hopson was surrounded by the demonstrators on the terrace of the office.

When he went out, they demanded that he bow his head and “admit his guilt” about British policy in Hong Kong in addition to receiving the protest.

Mr. Hopson refused.

After two-and-a-half hours of argument and shouting, he went to the main gate and, in sight of other demonstrators outside, the protest note was read and delivered to him. He undertook to forward it to the British Government.

The demand that he bow his head was dropped. The British mission was throughout well guarded by Chinese police and military.

- Demands -

At least four single-sheet “newspapers” are being circulated through the post today urging the Hong Kong authorities to accept Peking’s 48-hour ultimatum, which expired tonight. The newspapers, all roughly printed, are entitled “Hong Kong Criticis,” “Spark,” “Anti-Brutality” and “New Hong Kong.”

Editorials carried in the four papers referred to the Chinese protest note to Britain demanding the lifting of the suspension order on three pro-Peking newspapers in Hong Kong within 48 hours.

The note handed over to Mr. Hopson in Peking yesterday also demanded that all pro-Peking journalists and printers under detention in Hong Kong be released and that lawsults against two other communist newspapers in the Colony be withdrawn.

The three pro-Peking papers —Tin Fung Yat Pao, Hong Kong Evening News and the Afternoon News — had been suspended by the Government pending court proceedings against their executives and publishers.

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SCMP, 24 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

MORE BOMBS FOUND AND DETONATED

Ten bombs, including two found in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank head office, were detonated by explosives experts yesterday.

The first bomb, which was found on the staircase between the third and fourth floors, of the bank, exploded shortly before 11 am, but caused no damage.

- Man Charged -

Army ammunition experts arrived at the scene and discovered another bomb. It was later detonated.

Meanwhile, a 23-year-old man, who was arrested at the Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre, Mongkok, for hoisting a red flag with slogans on Tuesday night, will appear in North Kowloon Court today on a charge of displaying an inflammatory banner.

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SCMP, 24 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Tributes Paid To Two Young Bomb Victims
GOVT CONSIDERING DEATH PENALTY FOR BOMB CRIMES

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Government is considering the possibility of proposing the death penalty for crimes involving bombs, the Acting Colonial Secretary said yesterday.

The Hon D. R. Holmes was answering a call for such penalties by the Hon Y. K. Kan at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council.

Mr Holmes said prevention and detection of bomb outrages was especially difficult. Another measure, already taken, was the concentration of all high explosives stocks in one secure place.

He added: “The question of what other measures should be taken is under constant and urgent examination and the possibility of proposing the extreme penalty for offences of this type is amongst the measures that are under consideration.”

Mr Kan, in calling for the death penalty, said the instantaneous killing of two children in North Point last Sunday “was an act of wanton murder, and as such it would be condemned in any civilised society, be it here, in London or Peking, and its perpetrators would be punished with the utmost severity of the law.”

With the increase of bomb attacks in recent weeks many more could be expected to suffer “unless stringent measures are at once imposed,” Mr Kan said.

“No one, not even young and innocent children from humble homes, will be safe," he added.

Those who perpetrated the bombing crimes without regard for human life, “must be made to realise that if they are caught they may have to pay the extreme penalty that the law can impose,” Mr Kan stated, adding: “I strongly urge Government to consider this matter without delay.”

Both Mr Kan and Mr Holmes extended their deepest sympathy to the parents of the two children who lost their lives in last Sunday's bomb attack.

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23 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT UK LEGATION IN PEKING
Red Guards, Masses Demonstrate

Peking NCNA International Service in English 0256 GMT 23 August 1967--B

The meeting solemnly declared: "The sacred right of our patriotic countrymen in Hong Kong to propagate ‘Mao Tse-Tung's thought is inviolable!" The speakers pointed out that since the Launching of China's great proletarian cultural revolution, which had no parallel in history, the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung had been spread throughout the world on a still more extensive scale and its brilliance had illuminated the hearts cf the world's revolutionary people In trying to blockade the voice of truth, prevent the dissemination of the great thought of Mao Tse-tung, and stamp out the flames of the Hong Kong patriots! anti-British violence struggle, the fascist British authorities had resorted to ail kinds of despicable measures to persecute the patriotic press and journalists in Hong Kong.

The proletarian revolutionaries paid high tribute to the patriots in Hong Kong for persevering in their struggle against British imperialist violence. They stated that She patriots in Hong Kong who had displayed the Chinese people's dauntless spirit :7re heroic sons and daughters of the motherland nurtured by Mao Tse-tung's thought.

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SCMP, 24 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

‘ADMISSION OF DEFEAT BY LEFTISTS’

Mr Derek Davies, Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, said last night he interpreted remarks made on Tuesday by Mr Fei Yi-ming, publisher of the Communist paper Ta Kung Pao, as an admission that Hongkong leftists were beaten.

Mr Davies was speaking on Radio Hongkong’s “Talking Point.”

He based his interpretation on Mr Fei’s categorical declaration that there was no possibility of the political situation in the Colony being settled by negotiations between the British authorities and the local Communist leaders and that this was now a matter for London and Peking.

Other members of the panel were Mr David Davies, Correspondent of Agence France Presse, Mr Leo Goodstadt, Assistant Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and Mr Brian St Clair, a solicitor.

Mr St Clair noted that both sides would say their position was not negotiable but surely what was wanted was not negotiations but a return to an equilibrium.

Mr Goodstadt said it was a “great shame” that Peking should adhere to the belief that the British were in Hongkong solely to exploit and enslave the Chinese proletariat.

He added that it was even a greater shame that the local Communists still persisted in believing this, although all the evidence to the contrary was before them.

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SCMP, 24 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

FUNERAL OF YOUNG BOMB VICTIMS
Tight Police Security

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A funeral service for the two children who were killed by a bomb explosion in North Point on Sunday was held under tight police security at the Hongkong Funeral Home in North Point yesterday.

Uniformed policemen and plain-clothes detectives were stationed around the building.

In the main hall lay the coffins of the innocent victims of the Communist outrage, Wong Yee-man, aged seven, and her two-year-old brother, Siu-fan. Pictures of the two children hung at the altar.

A large gathering of people, including relatives, friends and residents of the area, attended the service. Government was represented by Mr Chui Kam, the Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

- Too Weak -

The grief-stricken grand-mother of the victims, Mrs Tam Shui-po, was too weak to walk and had to be carried, still shouting the names of the dead children, from the hall after the service.

The children were later buried at the Chaiwan Roman Catholic Cemetery.

The Rev Fr A. Formenti, of St Jude's Church, North Point, officiated at the services.

The funeral expenses were paid by Mr Siu Ming, Chairman of the North Point Kaifong Association. The coffins were donated by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. The two grave lots were donated by the Roman Catholic Church.

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SCMP, 24 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Pupils Write For Illegal Papers

The seditions contents of underground mimeograph newspapers have been written by pupils of left-wing schools, it was learned yesterday.

The papers are being sent to various people and business firms in the Colony. They first appeared after three left-wing newspapers were suspended last week.

An increasing number of such mimeograph newspapers have been received by the S.C.M. Post.

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SCMP, 24 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

RAIDS ON STORES IN YUEN LONG

Police, supported by units of the Hongkong Regiment, raided three China products stores in Yuen Long, New Territories, yesterday.

The raids were carried out simultaneously and lasted about an hour.

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SCMP, 24 Aug 1967 (Page 10)

DEATH PENALTY FOR BOMBERS?

GOVERNMENT is considering proposing the death penalty for crimes involving bombs. There is likely to be widespread public support for such a measure as a deterrent to the maniacs now operating in Hongkong. No single incident since the disturbances began has created such universal horror and disgust as the murder of two little Chinese children in Ching Wah Street on Sunday. The planting of other bombs near children’s playgrounds indicates a definite intention to kill or wound the youngest members of the community --- those who are as innocent of political entanglement as they are vulnerable through childish curiosity. That such a campaign should have been knowingly embarked on speaks volumes for the animal savagery of the agitators, whether they are those who construct the bombs or the (probably) paid thugs who distribute them. Our children must be protected and if imposition of the death penalty will contribute to that end it will be well justified.

Meanwhile it will not be forgotten that those responsible for previous bomb outrages have been described in print as having “done well and acted bravely and justly.” It will not be forgotten that Mr Fei Yi-ming, editor of the Ta Kung Pao, while in one breath disclaiming the responsibility of the so-called Anti-Persecution Struggle Committee for the terrorism, added in another that he believed terrorism to be justified. Further, in asserting that “the majority of the bombs were placed by ‘compatriots’ ” he seemed to display a knowledge of the identity of the perpetrators of these outrages considerably more intimate than that possessed by the forces of law and order. This, too, will not be forgotten. The spotlight for the moment is off Hongkong and on Peking and London, as Mr Fei predicted. The attack by the Peking mob on the British mission, however, had all the cowardly characteristics of the tactics that have been employed here. There, there was safety in numbers. Here, where the agitators are in a tiny minority, they make up for their lack of support by descending to such depths of secret, faceless evil-doing as we have recently witnessed. Violence, cruelty and arson are the end-products of both sorts of tactics, and it is the inherent handicap (though one to be proud of) of the authorities and the common people here and in London alike that they are utterly incapable of descending to similar depths.

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24 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

Victory For Mao's Thought

Peking NCNA International Service in English 2054 GMT 23 August 1967--B

(Text) Peking, 23 August-- […] Fighters of the militia company in the town of Sha Tau Kok, who performed meritorious deeds in supporting the struggle of the patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong against British imperialist violence, said that the British authorities there were trying to denigrate the influence of the world-shaking Chinese great proletarian cultural revolution, prevent the dissemination of the great thought of Mao Tse-tung, and brutally suppress patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong and Kowloon. In coordination with imperialisn, revisionism, and the reactionaries of all countries, the top party person in authority taking the capitalist road opposed Chairnan Mao, Mao Tse-tung's thought and socialism, and dreamed of restoring capitalism. Their plots will never come true. The revolutionary people will annihilate them.

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24 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

HOW BRITAIN OCCUPIED CHINA'S HONG KONG

Peking NCNA International Service in English 2047 GMT 22 August 1967--B

(Text) Peking, 22 August--Background material: How British imperialism occupied China's Hung Kong, Kowloon, and the "New Territories."

The occupation by force by moribund barbarous British imperialism of China’s territory of Hong Kong has a history of more than 100 years British imperialism started its economic infiltration of China as far back as the 1630's. In the 1680's, Britain formally set up commercial houses in Kwangchow. After this it repeatedly asked the feudal government of the Ching dynasty to establish new commercial ports and to cede islands. These were tho preliminary aggressive activities carried out by British imperialism against China.

After the 1830's, British imperialism brought large quantities of opium into China. In 1840 British imperialism launched a large-scale war of aggression against China-. the "Opium War"--and British troops invaded Kwangtung. Due to the valiant resistance put up by the people of Kwangchow and the local army garrison, the British troops failed in their objective and they went northward to invade Tientsin. The corrupt feudal government of the Ching dynasty decided to surrender to the British imperialists and withdrew all its defense troops in Kwangchow, In 1841 the British invaders again started a massive attack on Nanking. The Ching government humbly sued for peace and in 1842 was forced to sign the treasonable "Nanking Treaty," which ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain.

In 1856 Britain launched the Second Opium War. It summoned France to join it in forming the Anglo-French allied forces which, after capturing Kwangchow, invaded Peking. The Ching government was forced to sign the "Peking Treaty" with Britain in 1860, ceding to Britain "Chiulung Ssu," a place facing Hong Kong from the opposite shore (now the place south of Boundary Street on the Kowloon peninsula).

In 1898, taking advantage of the defeat suffered by the Ching dynasty government in the Sino-Japanese war and on the pretext that the lease of Kwangchow Bay by France menaced the safety of Hong Kong, the British imperialists went a step further. They forcibly leased a large area covering over 900 square kilometers for 99 years. This area, which extends from the former "Chiulung Ssu" to the Shumchun River on the north, Mirs Bay on the east, and the Deep Bay on the west, was later named the "New Territories." Thus Hong Kong island proper, plus the whole Kowloon peninsula and nearby islets south of the Shumchun River, covering over 1,000 square kilometers, were forcibly occupied by British imperialism. Now what is generally called Hong Kong includes Hong Kong island proper and the Kowloon peninsula. After invading and occupying Hong Kong and Kowloon, Britisn imperialism turned them into an important base for committing aggression in the whole of Southeast Asia. At the same time it exploited the Chinese in Hong Kong and bled them white.

British imperialism made use of Hong Kong to sell large amounts of opium to the Chinese people and drain China of its wealth. It even went to the length of turning Hong Kong into a center for selling Chinese laborers from Hong Kong to America, it gained a profit of 1.5 million US dollars.

At the end of the 19th century Hong Kong, formerly a desolate island with a population or 2,000 fisherfolk, had been built into an important commercial port in Southeast Asia with a population of several hundred thousand on a foundation of the blood, sweat, and corpses of Chinese working people. Through Hong Kong, British imperialism plundered enormous wealth every year. As the saying went in Britain at that time: "Hong Kong is the most lustrous pearl in the British crown." and "If Hong Kong were lost, London would be bankrupt." Since the beginning of the 2Oth century Hong Kong has still been an important British imperialist base for committing aggression in southeast Asia. Since its invasion of Hong Kong, British imperialism has step by step set up a whole set of fascist institutions +o bolster its rule, It brutally oppresses and corrupts our compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon by means of the decadent and dying western culture. British imperialism's cruel plunder and exploitation has driven the bulk of the Chinese residents into misery. According to 1962 statistics, there were around 300,000 unemployed in Hong Kong, 400,000 children without schooling and 500,000 slum dwellers. There is a striking contrast between the slum dwellings of the poor and the huge buildings and mansions occupied by the compradors and capitalists.

Hong Kong is a living specimen of the bloodsucking, sinister colonial rule of British imperialism. Ever since the liberation of the Chinese mainland, British imperialism has worked hand-in-glove with US imperialism and the Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang to make Hong Kong an outpost for carrying out harassing and sabotaging activities against the mainland of China. In the past few years British imperialism has increasingly placed Hong Kong at the disposal of US imperialism as a military base for its aggression against Vietnam.

Tac crimes committed by the British imperialists in Hong Kong during the past 100 years and more are too numerous to mention, The Chinese people, including those in Hong Kong, will no longer allow the British imperialists to run wild in Hong Kong. The 4 million compatriots in Hong Kong and the 700 million Chinese people will certainly smash the British imperialists’ evil rule in Hong Kong.

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24 August 1967

Printed on The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C.

BRITISH DIPLOMAT IN PEKING MAILS PROTEST
By KENNETH D. CAMPBELL

LONDON (UPI) — Britain's embattled man in Peking knew only one way to get the message through. Reports reaching London today said Charge Donald C. Hopson protested a Red Guard assault on his embassy by mailing a letter to Mao Tse-tung’s regime.

The commando turned diplomat, a key pawn in the Sino-British crisis over Hong Kong, was reported to have typed out the protest Wednesday night in a private Peking home where he found refuge.

Then he ventured into the Peking streets, although the mob beat and kicked and other British diplomats in Tuesday night’s burning of the 30-room chancery office building and embassy automobiles. Hopson dropped the letter in a Peking mailbox, the reports said.

It typified the extent the London-Peking dispute has gone beyond normal diplomatic conduct. Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s government, clearly angered at what it called the Communist Chinese government-inspired assault on the embassy and diplomats, kept Peking diplomats here under extraordinary restrictions.

The Peking diplomats were barred from leaving the country. They must ask permission to go more than five miles from the marble arch, the Hyde Park monument that was the target of Germany’s World War II V-bombs.

The foreign office issued the bans in its concern for its 25 diplomats and their wives and children being held virtual hostage in Peking.

Foreign office spokesmen said two diplomats, one wife and one baby were barred from leaving on holiday fro Peking although they had the exit visas Peking’s foreign office issues. Chinese officials in Peking waved their hands and smiled and said no planes were available. This was not believed true in London.

24 August 1967
OP-ED: BRITISH LEARN ABOUT CHINESE RECOGNITION

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson ‘and Foreign Secretary George Brown probably have some mental reservations on the diplomatic recognition of the government of Communist China. Recognition of the boys in Peking hasn't worked exactly as planned and the odds are that the French paragon of wisdom — Charles de Gaulle — will sooner or later undergo the same sad experience.

Messrs. Wilson and Brown are not, of course, personally responsible for British recognition of Red China. This was an action which took place before either of them held cabinet positions but the action did have the approval of their political party.

It was General De Gaulle, however, who effected Chinese recognition on the part of France. If the usual news sources are to be believed, however, France has gained nothing by recognizing Peking but the slant-eyed commies have succeeded in establishing a comfortable and effective base of operations in Paris.

At this time this is being written, Messrs. Wilson and Brown are attempting to find out exactly what happened to their Embassy in Peking. The Embassy’s business office was apparently burned and British nationals who are supposed to enjoy diplomatic immunity were beaten.

Apparently the Chinese government was unable, or unwilling, to provide the protection which diplomatic usage requires of a host government.

This violent action is probably a part of the Chinese pressure on the crown colony of Hong Kong, which is just about the last outpost of what was once the British Empire. If we remember correctly, one of the reasons given for British recognition of Red China was that such a gesture of friendship would ease what was certain to become a Hong Kong problem.

Of one thing Messrs. Wilson and Brown may be certain; they or their successors will eventually be ordered to surrender their rights in the crown colony. The time will be when the Chinese believe ownership will be more profitable than the present arrangement.

None of these facts, however, are likely to change the thinking of some of our own people who believe that a lot of problems could be avoided or solved by inviting Red China to sit in the United Nations and by diplomatic recognition on the part of the United States.

There are at least two theories on the diplomatic recognition of one nation by another. The simplest—and generally accepted—theory is that recognition carries with it no approval but only the recognition that this is the operating government of the moment. A comparison might be the recognition by an individual of the fact that his neighbor owned the house in which he lived but that his private actions and housekeeping methods were not approved.

A second theory would be that recognition also implied a degree of approval of methods and philosophies, and still another might be a combination of one or both accepted solely in the desire to carry on commercial intercourse for the usual motive of making money. (Our Canadian friends have seemed to enjoy the largest degree of success in this field).

The Peking Chinese accepted British and French recognition with an unconcealed contempt. Peking has made it very clear that it is not seeking United Nations membership and would accept it only on its own terms.

Those who see advantages in U.N. membership or recognition for the Red Chinese must be closing their eyes to very obvious facts.

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The Straits Times, 24 August 1967, Page 1

‘Uncivilised act': Stern protest to Mao's Man - then Wilson and Brown Hurry Back to London

Britain hits back

BRITAIN has taken strong retaliatory measures against Chinese diplomats in London following the attack on the British diplomatic mission in Peking by Chinese demonstrators yesterday.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson, interrupted a vacation in the Scilly Isles today to fly back to London for a Cabinet meeting.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr. George Brown, also cut short a Norwegian holiday to fly back to London.

- ‘Peking-instigated’-

Britain last night delivered a stern protest to Mr. Sheng Ping, Chinese Charge d’Affaires in London. The Foreign Office branded the Peking attack as “an outrageous and uncivilised act” which was “deliberately instigated by the Chinese Government.”

Mr. Brown decided to fly home after a midnight telephone report from his deputy, Mr. George Thomson, on his heated 20-minute meeting with the Chinese diplomat. Britain last night banned all Chinese diplomats from leaving the country without special permission. The travel ban also applied to Chinese journalists and trade delegates in Britain—about 50 to 60 people in all.

(Caption * LONDON, Wed. — Britain made it clear today it will not seek a rupture of diplomatic relations with China following the burning down of the British Chancery in Peking. A Foreign Office spokesman said it was not Britain's objective to break with Peking.)

Mr Thomson also said that all members of the Chinese diplomatic mission would be restricted to within five miles of Marble Arch, in the centre of London. and withdrew permission to operate the diplomatic radio in the Chinese Legation until Britain’s links with Peking are restored.

Mr. Sheng Ping was summoned to the Foreign Office after day-long demonstrations outside the British diplomatic mission in Peking culminated in destruction of the Chancery building by fire and damage to the residence of the Charge d'Affiares, Mr Donald Hopson.

A Foreign Office statement claimed that Chinese troops and police who previously surrounded the mission clearly took no action to protect it.

The Chinese Government contravened all normal diplomatic behaviour and “violated the immunity of the premises and the personal immunity of Her Majesty's Government's Charge d'Affaires and members of his staff.” the statement declared.

- Maltreated -

"This is yet another example of the flagrant disregard by the Chinese Government of the sovereign rights of other governments. It was an outrageous and uncivilised act which will bring the Chinese Government into disrepute throughout the world.”

The Foreign Office statement began by referring to reports from Peking that the mob had broken into the Chancery offices and Mr. Hopson's residence.

The British diplomatic radio wireless station in Peking then went off the air.

The Foreign Office subsequently learned from a friendly power represented Peking that the Chancery building had been destroyed, Mr Hopson's residence and contents and members of the mission severely molested and maltreated.

The statement concluded: “Mr. Thomson told the Charge d’Affaires to inform his Government that we require a report of the incident in Peking, an explanation of why it took place and an assurance from now on that British premises and personnel will be protected and full compensation will be paid for the damage done.”

The Peking correspondent of the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported today that Red Guards set upon Mr. Hopson and another British official as they ran from the flaming Chancery with about 10 other members of the Staff yesterday.

Other press reports reaching Tokyo said they were not seriously hurt, and all Britons were now safe.

Other members of the mission and their families sought refuge in friendly foreign missions. Kyodo quoted diplomatic sources as saying that about 500 Red Guards stormed the Chancery, but Radio Peking reported that 10,000 chanting Chinese took part in the demonstration in protest against Britain's refusal to accept a 48-hour Chinese ultimatum over a Hong Kong ban on three pro-Peking newspapers. The ultimatum expired last night.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Brutal Attack On Radio Employees
REWARD OF $100,000 OFFERED BY STATION

Mr George Ho, Managing Director of the Hongkong Commercial Broadcasting Co Ltd, said yesterday his company was offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the petrol bomb attack on two of his employees in Kowloon.

Mr Ho assured the public that the cruel acts carried out by the Communist trouble-makers would never succeed in shaking the stand taken by Commercial Radio to expose violence.

Meanwhile, the police have also offered a reward of $50,000 in connection with the case.

Doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital were still battling to save the lives of Mr Lam Bun, 37, and his cousin, Mr Lam Kong-hoi, 28, after they were attacked by Communist agitators who threw petrol over their car and set fire to it.

A hospital spokesman said late last night that the conditions of the two men were still “very critical.”

The attack occurred when four men, posing as road repair workers, stopped Mr Lam Bun’s car outside his house in Waterloo Road Hill. One of the men waved a red flag and as the car stopped, two other men threw a tin of petrol over Mr Lam and his cousin and set them and the car on fire.

- Threw Petrol -

Before running away, the attackers, threw several small plastic containers of petrol into the car.

Both Mr Lam Bun and his cousin managed to get out of the car. They rolled on the ground in an attempt to extinguish the flames from their clothing.

A caretaker of a nearby mansion rushed out and attempted to put out the flames of the car with a fire-extinguisher but failed. A report was then made to the police.

An advertising executive, a close friend of Mr Lam Bun, rushed out from his nearby flat to give first aid.

It was learned that Mr Lam Bun told him: “We have been attacked by Communist agitators." He then collapsed.

Mr Lam Bun had been constantly attacked by the leftist elements in both Hongkong and Macao as a “traitor” and “running dog.” In recent months, he launched an anti-Communist campaign over the Chinese network of the station.

It was also learned that Mr Lam Bun had earlier been threatened by the leftist elements with bodily harm if he did not stop his anti-Communist campaign.

- Exposed -

Commenting on the attack on his employees, Mr Ho said: “Apparently, the trouble-makers are scared to death as their ugly activities to disturb the peace in Hongkong and to harm residents are being exposed by Commercial Radio. Therefore, they resorted to such inhuman and cruel acts in order to intimidate the staff of the station.

“Since the disturbances started under the pretext of labour disputes in May, the local Communists have been all the time acting against the interest of the 4m people in Hongkong. As a result, they are very much hated by all the peace-loving people.”

Mr Ho said that the feeling of the general public was even deeper against the local Communists who had been carrying out bomb-throwing activities to endanger lives and properties.

He said the tragedy in Ching Wah Street in which two innocent children were killed, showed the cruelty of the local Communists.

“Under such circumstances, it is the duty of every resident to assist the authorities in stamping out the trouble-makers,” Mr Ho stressed.

Meanwhile, the Police yesterday increased the reward from $25,000 to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons responsible for the explosion in Ching Wah Street in North Point last Sunday.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

FEWER BOMBS

Four bombs were found and detonated in the Colony yesterday while a man was arrested for placing a fake bomb in Tsun Wan, New Territories.

The first two bombs were discovered near the Railway Workers' Quarters near the Ma Liu Shui Station shortly after 8 am. There were no casualties or damage reported.

The third one was found in a lane between Block 1 and 2 of Shekkipmei resettlement estate about 3 pm. The fourth was found in Woh Chai Street, Shamshuipo, at 3.20 pm.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

MORE INCIDENTS AT BORDER
Roof Of Immigration Office Set Alight
MACHINE-GUN BURSTS

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Apart from a stoning incident the border was quiet last night following a series of incidents earlier in the day in which the roof of the Immigration Office at Lowu was set alight by petrol bombs and a radio commentator had his tape recorder snatched by angry demonstrators.

The stoning took place at Shataukok in the evening and shortly before it ceased, one stone which landed on the Hongkong side had attached to it a package containing gun powder in the form of a crude bomb. It did not explode.

In the area near Lowu and Mankamto, more machine-gun bursts were heard following the shots that were fired shortly before 5 pm.

A Government spokesman said however that it was still not known whether the machine gun bursts were fired into Hongkong or Chinese territory.

He said it was possible that they were intended to serve as a warning to demonstrators from Chinese territory whose actions had taken a violent turn at both these points.

The spokesman said that no Chinese soldiers were seen adopting an aggressive role at either Lowu or Mankamto and they were in fact seen grappling with demonstrators from their side seeking to heighten the disturbances at Lowu.

- Shouted Abuse -

At one point, one of the Chinese troops was struck down by a demonstrator at Lowu while other demonstrators appeared to applaud this action, he added.

The troubles started yesterday morning when a group of journalists went on a conducted tour of the border town.

As the journalists stopped at Lowu, a group of about 18 Chinese farmers gathered on the other side of the fence and shouted abuse.

A little while later, five persons in the group, three men and two women, managed to cross into Hongkong territory. Armed with long hoes and stones, they surrounded Tim Williams, a Commercial Radio commentator and took away his tape recorder.

Mr Williams said later: “I was walking away from the abusive and threatening group of farmers when I heard someone shout ‘lai’ (come). I stopped and before I knew what was up I was surrounded by three men and two women armed with hoes.

“They demanded to see my camera and films. I placed my tape recorder on the ground and opened it to show them that it was not a camera.

“I thought then that at most they would take away my tape… I didn't expect them to take the machine as well.”

Mr Williams said he wondered how they got into the compound. “I saw the Senior Immigration Officer there close and bolt the fence-gate earlier,” he added.

Caught by surprise, the Gurkhas, policemen and Immigration officers accompanying the journalists did not intervene.

The Gurkhas later fired gas grenades and a smoke grenade to disperse a group of about 40 demonstrators who had by new fought their way into the Immigration compound on the Hongkong side.

At the Chinese side of the bridge, Communist soldiers were at this stage seen grappling with members of a crowd of 100 attempting to join the demonstration.

Peace returned to Lowu until about 5 pm when another crowd began a further demonstration during which two bursts of machine-gun fire were heard from a hill on the Chinese side of the border.

At about the same time, a group of three or four men began tampering with the barricades that had been placed at the Hongkong end of the Mankamto bridge. They ran back into Chinese territory when Gurkha troops approached the bridge.

Later they returned, their numbers swollen to about 40, and threw stones which they had stockpiled for this purpose.

Each time they were repelled by the Gurkhas who ran through: the hail of stones and lobbed gas grenades at them.

Later, the demonstrators launched an attack on the bridge under cover of two large hay carts which they used as a screen for their advance. But this ploy also failed when the Gurkhas continued to lob gas grenades onto the barricades which the demonstrators were attempting to remove.

At the height of the demonstration, bursts of machinegun fire were heard from Chinese territory. A police spokesman said afterwards that the bursts were believed to have come from military emplacements and appeared to be intended as a warming possible to restrain the demonstrators from going too far.

- Tempers Inflamed -

Mr E. Eates, the Commissioner of Police, who was in the area at the time witnessed the demonstration at Mankamto. He said later: “It appears that the tempers of people on the other side of the border have been inflamed --- and with deliberate intent --- by the false reports they have received from local Communists in Hongkong.

“As a result, a mindless hostility seems to have replaced the calm that formerly prevailed along this frontier, where, until recently, peaceful intercourse had continued for many years.”

At about, 6.20 pm, several petrol bombs were thrown into the Hongkong side of the border at Lowu. One of the bombs set fire to the roof of the Immigration Office.

A little earlier, three men swam across the river on the left of the railway and clambered onto Hongkong territory where they cut a hole in a barbed wire fence before swimming back to their side.

A police spokesman said last night that phosphorus smoke grenades were used at Mankamto and Lowu yesterday because the usual tear smoke had proved ineffective partly because of the weather conditions and partly because the demonstrators had prepared themselves with home-made gas masks and took other precautions.

The use of phosphorus grenades which produced a thick smoke was preferred to the only alternative which would have been to open fire, he added.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

EXPLOSIVE THEFTS
Big Reward Offered For Information

The police yesterday offered a reward of $50,000 for information about the theft of explosives from two private construction sites on Hongkong Island last week.

At first the reward was $25,000. Four hours later it was announced that the sum had been doubled.

The reward, which is valid for six months, is for information leading to the recovery of the stolen explosives or the arrest and conviction of any person of persons responsible for the thefts.

A quantity of explosives was stolen from a dangerous goods store on Tin Hau Temple Hill, near Summit Court, between 7 pm on August 15 and 6 am on August 16. The explosives included 336 sticks of gelignite, some black powder and a number of fuses and detonators.

Early on the morning of August 10, 363 sticks of gelignite were stolen when two men bound and gagged a night watchman and broke into a magazine store at a construction site in Repulse Bay. They also stole detonators.

Any person who may have information that can assist the police in their enquiries is asked to contact the Superintendent, C.I.D. Headquarters, Hongkong Island, telephone 234011, extension 321, or report to any police station.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 7)

Police Raid On Left-Wing Union Described

Bottles, acid, offensive weapons and inflammatory posters were seized when the police raided a left-wing union in Mongkok, South Kowloon Court magistrate was told yesterday.

Detective Insp W. W. Easey told Mr J. J. Rhind, the magistrate, at the trial of five people that the police raided the Mongkok branch of the Hongkong and Kowloon Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Trade Workers’ General Union at 347-349 Portland Street, third floor, on July 29.

The defendants, including two women, were charged with being found on premises containing corrosive acid and weapons, and having in their possession inflammatory posters.

Insp Easey said the police found in the union bottles of acid, photographs and anti-British cartoons.

Hearing will continue today.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 7)

RAID ON WAH FUNG: SIX ACQUITTED

Six men, arrested during a police raid on the premises of the Wah Fung Chinese Goods Centre in North Point, were acquitted by Mr P. M. Corfe at Central Court yesterday on a charge of being on premises where authorised officers were denied access.

The court was told at a previous hearing that when the police raided the Wah Fung store on August 4 their way was blocked by a steel door. They attempted to make their presence known by shouting to the people inside and asking them to open the door. Instead, the police heard people inside warning each other that it was the police and that they would not open the door.

Finally, the police opened the door with acetylene torches and found six men in a large room.

In their defence, the defendants said that the door through which the police had entered was the rear door and it had been locked for many months as a normal precaution against thieves since the room it led to was used to store merchandise.

They denied they had talked to each other when the police arrived. They said they were asleep at that time.

Discharging the defendants, Mr Corfe said it was for the Crown to prove every ingredient of the offence, one being that the police must be empowered to enter the premises.

He went on to say that although under Regulation 100, “police officers are empowered to enter premises which they may have reason to suspect of being used for any purpose against the public's interest, there is no evidence before me that these officers or the commanding officer had any such reason for suspicion. Neither had they a search warrant.

“The Crown having failed to prove the essential ingredient of the offence, each of the defendants will accordingly be acquitted.”

The six are, Lam Wing (40), Chung King-san (29), Lai Shun-wing (27), Wong Shun-wing (27), and Chan Yau (43), all salesmen, and Pun Ping-fan (26), a labourer.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 7)

THREE SEPARATE TRIALS
Five Newspaper Executives Face 99 Charges

The trial of five Communist newspaper executives, facing a total of 99 charges including 27 summonses, is expected to take six days, it was stated yesterday.

At Central Court, Mr David Wilcox, Crown Counsel, asked for three separate trials because the charges concerned three Suspended newspapers --- the Afternoon News, Hongkong Evening News and Tin Fung Yat Pao.

The first of the trials will begin today when Mr E. Light, the magistrate, will hear 30 charges relating to alleged sedition, incitement to disaffection and the publication of false news in the Afternoon News.

Facing six charges each are Wu Tai-chow (32), publisher of the Afternoon News and Hongkong Evening News; Chak Nuen-fai (49), owner and licensee of the Nam Cheong Printing Co; and Li Siu-hung (44), a director of the printing company and publisher of the Hongkong Commercial Daily.

- Four Days -

Included in the hearing will be six summonses against Afternoon News Ltd and six summonses against Nam Cheong Printing Company, printers of the Afternoon News.

The reading of the 72 charges against Wu, Chak, Li, Chan Yim-kuen (32), publisher of the Tin Fung Yat Pao; and her husband, Poon Wai-wai, editor of the newspaper, which ended yesterday morning, took almost four days.

The accused have pleaded not guilty.

During yesterday's hearing, Mr Light expressed concern that the five executives were not legally represented. He pointed out that the Crown was represented by two extremely able Crown Counsel in the persons of Mr Wilcox and Mr A. J. Corrigan.

Mr Light said he would have less anxiety if the defendants were legally represented.

When Mr Light asked each of the defendants if they had any objection to three separate hearings, each of them requested that their adjournments be as short as possible.

They said that long adjournments would cause them further financial loss due to the continued suspension of their newspapers.

Publication of the three newspapers has been suspended until completion of the trial.

The defendants declared they were innocent and claimed that the trial was illegal.

Mr Light asked Li if he would explain what he meant by saying that the trial was illegal.

- A Difference -

“There is a difference between saying that you are innocent and that you do not recognise the jurisdiction of this court,” Mr Light said.

Li did not offer any explanation.

Mr Light refused an application by the woman publisher of the Tin Fung Yat Pao, Chan Yim-kuen, to be allowed to attend the hearings against the Afternoon News and the Hongkong Evening News.

Mr Light said it was the first time such an application had been made to him from the dock in the 20 years of his experience on the Bench.

He said it would be improper for her to sit in the dock or in the public gallery during trials not involving her.

Chan was remanded in jail custody with her husband, Poon Wai-wai, until hearing relating to charges arising from the publication of editorial comment and news coverage in the Tin Fung Yat Pao begins next Friday.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 7)

Twenty Months For Attacking Bus Office

A youth, who said he had jumped into the harbour because he was afraid of being hit by bullets, was jailed for 20 months by Mr P. M. Corfe at Central Court yesterday for forming an intimidating assembly and malicious damage.

Lam Ming-kin (18), a factory worker, was among 30 people who were breaking the windows of the China Motor Bus regulating office at the junction of Des Voeux Road West and Centre Street on the evening of August 9.

He was ordered to stop, but he ignored the warning and ran away. The police opened fire and he jumped into the harbour. He was later arrested.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 7)

Woman Seen Burning Posters

A 38-year-old housewife and mother of four was put on a $100 bond for one year by Mr T. L. Van Rees at Central Court yesterday for possession of inflammatory posters.

Lo Sau-yen, of Block “F” Southern Building, eighth floor, King’s Road, North Point, pleaded guilty. She was also ordered to pay $100 court costs.

The court was told that Lo was arrested on July 29 when a police constable taking part in a raid found her burning some papers in the corridor of the building.

The constable extinguished the fire and found that some of the papers were of an inflammatory nature.

A search of her premises resulted in the discovery under her bed of a box containing more inflammatory posters.

In mitigation, Lo said that she was burning joss papers in the corridor when her four-year-old daughter brought home some pamphlets. As she was illiterate, she did not know that they contained inflammatory matter until her nine-year-old son told her so.

Then one of her children told her that the police were coming and, in fright, she started throwing some of the papers into the fire and the rest she stuffed Into a box under her bed, she said.

Lo was represented by Mr R. H. Hindmarsh.

Insp A. A. Murphy prosecuted.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

Anti-British Slogans Shouted In Court

About 40 people shouted anti-British slogans at Kowloon District Court yesterday when Judge R. O'Connor jailed two sisters and their uncle for possession of offensive weapons and obstructing the police.

The demonstrators, most of them wearing Mao badges, used abusive language against the court and the police.

The trouble began when the defendants were convicted of possessing two axes, a cargo hook, fireworks and glass botles, and of obstructing the police.

The two sisters are Ma Wan-ching (27) and Ma Sik-ming (21), and their uncle is Ma Kam-lung (66), owner of the Chung Shun China Products Company in Sheungshui, New Territories.

Just before the judge sentenced the sisters to five years’ imprisonment and their uncle to seven, they shouted “protest.”

The spectators in the public gallery also shouted, abusing Government, the court and the police.

Judge O'Connor ordered the arrest of a man who was particularly active in the demonstration.

The man, Poon Chung-sang (21), a clerk of the Pacific Insurance Co, living at the Ngautaukok resettlement estate was then jailed for 14 days for contempt of court.

Later, another group of people arrived and assembled outside the No 1 courtroom.

They demanded to know about a case which they said had been transferred there from North Kowloon Court. They shouted and then marched out of the building.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

BOY HAD 2,890 INFLAMMATORY POSTERS

A 16-year-old youth was jailed for nine months by Mr G. C. Byrne at North Kowloon Court yesterday for possession of 2,890 inflammatory posters.

Two dock workers who attacked the police when they were arresting the youth were jailed for 12 months on charges of obstructing and assaulting police officers.

They are Chan Kwok-hing (20), of Flat C, fourth floor, 80 Nathan Road, Tsimshatsui, and Chan Poon-on (19), of 67 Wuhu Street, ground floor, Hunghom.

- Parcels -

Mr J. E. Smith, Chief Inspector of Yard Police, Kowloon Docks, said that at 3.20 pm on June 23 he saw two boys take three parcels from a car. One of them was the 16-year-old defendant. He approached them and found that the parcels contained inflammatory posters. He reported to the police.

When two police inspectors and three detectives arrived they were surrounded by seven people and as they were arresting the youth the two dock workers assaulted one of the inspectors.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

FILM EXTRA JAILED THREE YEARS

A 24-year-old film extra of Shaw Brothers Studios was yesterday jailed for three years by Mr T. L. Van Rees at Central Court when he was found guilty of possessing inflammatory posters and an offensive weapon.

Chau Tung-hing of 68 Peiho Street, third floor, Shamshuipo, had pleaded not guilty to both charges.

Another defendant, Chu Kam (36), a cook living at 5 Yue Lok Lane, Third Street, Western District, was jailed for 27 months for possessing inflammatory posters and consorting with people who had in their possession arms without a permit. He also pleaded not guilty.

An additional charge of being found in a private enclosure for an unlawful purpose, preferred against both defendants, was dismissed.

The court was told that the two men were arrested on the first floor of 207 Des Voeux Road West on August 9 after rioters had attacked trams in the area with stones.

Some inflammatory posters were found and Chau had a chopper.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

Hotel Waiters Remanded

Two waiters of the Hongkong Hilton Hotel appeared before Mr A. L. Leathlean at Central Court yesterday on charges of possession of inflammatory posters.

Insp B. L. Coak said they were arrested during an investigation of a bomb explosion in the hotel.

He asked that the two defendants be remanded in police custody for further investigations.

The defendants are Lai Tuk-ming (20), of 318 Tan Fung Lau, Choy Hung Estate, and Hung Wor-ping (23), of 7A Wah Ching Road, “N” Section, Diamond Hill. They are alleged to have had inflammatory posters in the male changing room of the hotel on Tuesday.

They were remanded to Monday.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

INQUEST
Man Appeared Normal, Officer Says

A police officer, testifying at an inquiry into the death of a man who died in cells of the Wongtaisin Police Station on June 9, said that the man appeared normal and had made no complaints the night before he died.

The man, Tsui Tin-po (42), a Public Works Department artisan, was among 340 people arrested by the police on June 8 at the Public Works Department's Electrical and Mechanical workshop in Sun Wong Toi Road, Tokwawan.

Chief Insp A. Crosby said that he was in charge of the cells at the Wongtaisin Police Station on June 8. Tsui was with three other prisoners. He inspected the cells several times and Tsui had made no complaints. The next day he again saw Tsui at 8 am, Tsui appeared to be normal, Insp Crosby said.

About lunchtime, Insp Crosby said, a sergeant told him that he suspected Tsui was dead.

Detective Constable Wong Kwong-nuen said that he interviewed Tsui at 6.40 pm on June 8 in the CID room. Tsui appeared to be normal.

Constable Wong said he took Tsui to an inspector's office and took some statements from him until 7.15 pm. He denied that he had assaulted Tsui and added that Tsui had not mentioned to him that he had been assaulted by anyone.

The heating before Mr Victor Lam, the Coroner, will continue today.

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SCMP, 25 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

Youths Planted False Bomb

Two youths were jailed tor 18 months when they pleaded guilty before Mr F. de F. Stratton at North Kowloon Court yesterday to charges of conspiracy, writing inflammatory slogans and planting a false bomb.

They are Wong Keung (19), a newspaper delivery boy, and Yip Kam-fat (17), a schoolboy, both of Saumauping resettlement estate.

A 13-year-old boy, was remanded for a week for a probation officer’s report.

Insp K. M. C. McKenzie said that the three defendants were arrested on Tuesday after they were seen putting a tin near the wall of the Wongtaisin Kaifong Association.

Questioned later in the police station, the defendants said they had formed an anti-persecution committee in June with ten members. They also admitted that they had written inflammatory slogans on a wall of the Resettlement office in Saumauping on August 14.

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25 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

Belligerence Toward Diplomats

Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 0530 GMT 25 August 1967--L

(Text) MAYAK will report today on the new barbaric activities of the Hung Weiping in China. “Terror town" is what Canton is now called by its citizens. Bloody clashes continue there. The Kwangchow workers have organized fighting detachments which are fighting the Mao Tse-tungists. There are also constant clashes among various rival groups of Hung Weiping.

The situation in the Chinese capital itself “is also disturbed. Here, unbridled Hung Weiping are skilfully directed along the lines required by the Peking leaders. Their latest misdeed is the destruction of the British diplomatic mission. While the present Chinese leaders are doing (?nothing to separate) the Chinese territory of Hong Kong from the British colonialists, but are restricting themselves only to verbal thundering, they are behaving in a super belligerent manner toward Britain's diplomatic representatives in Peking. The mission building has been burned down; many diplomats were cruelly beaten up. Observers think that they intend by this to frighten the staff of other embassies. However, such actions provoke only feelings of shams for these who commit them.

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25 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

BRITISH REPRESSION OF CPR NEWSMEN FLAYED

Hanoi VNA International Service in English 1450 GMT 24 August 1967--B

(Text) Hanoi, 24 August--NHAN DAN today voiced full support for the 20 August note of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and protested against the Hong Kong British authorities! unlawful detention of Chinese patriotic journalists and their order order to close down three newspapers and two printing houses in Hong Kong. In a commentary, the paper pointed out that, in addition to the bloody persecution of Chinese people in Hong Kong and Kowloon, in recent days the Hong Kong British authorities have cracked down on Chinese patriotic journalists.

The paper said: The British colonialists’ policy of barbarous persecution has failed to quench the flames of just struggle of the Chinese people in Hong Kong, and only shows that the Hong Kong British authorities are afraid of the just voice of the Chinese journalists, who have the strong sympathy and support of their 700 million fellow-countrymen.

The paper stressed: The Vietnamese people and journalists firmly support the legitimate demands of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the All-Chinese Journalists Association. The British ruling circles in Hong Kong must immediately stop their illegal trial of the Chinese patriotic journalists still under detention and set them free. The British authorities must cancel their order to close down three newspapers and two printing houses of Chinese patriots in Hong Kong and halt their barbarous suppression of the just struggle of the Chinese people in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

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The Straits Times, 25 August 1967, Page 2

Burned out envoy is back in business.

TOKYO, Thursday

JAPANESE reports from Peking today said that calm had returned to the area around the fire-gutted British chancery.

Correspondents in the capital said that Mr. Donald Hopson, the British Charge d'Affaires, was escorted to the British diplomatic compound, a short distance from the burned-out chancery, at 1 a.m. today where he set up temporary offices.

The Mainichi Shimbun said Mr. Hopson’s head was bandaged. First report of the Tuesday night's incident said Mr Hopson and some of his staff were beaten by Red Guards as they fled from the burning building.

The Nihon Keizai correspondent said the Red Guards who set fire to the chancery shouted slogans in English and French, suggesting they were from the Peking Foreign Languages Institute.

- Head bandaged -

Its Red Guard unit is particularly belligerent and has sharply criticised Foreign Minister Chen Yi himself for what it called insufficient enthusiasm in backing Chairman Mao.

Military guards posted around the ruined chancery were withdrawn today, the Japanese said.

In LONDON, Chinese diplomats were under extraordinary diplomatic restrictions in the aftermath of the destruction of the British Embassy in Peking.

- Unprecedented -

All Communist Chinese in Britain were barred from leaving the country, and Chinese diplomatic personnel were required to get Foreign Office permission to more than five miles from the British capital.

It was an unprecedented move in diplomatic protocol by Britain, which virtually was holding the envoys as hostages for the safety of Britons in Peking.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr George Brown, said that the highest priority must be given to getting the 29 wives and children of British diplomats out of Peking.

China barred two dependants and two diplomats from leaving on Tuesday, shortly before the chancery was burned, in an apparent protest against alleged British repression of Chinese Communists in Hong Kong.

- Destroyed -

The chancery was destroyed in a wild demonstration late on Tuesday night by Red Guards, who beat and kicked men and women of the British mission as they fled the burning building.

It was feared that lists of names and addresses of British citizens living outside Peking were probably burned when the British mission was gutted.

The Foreign Office said it did not know precisely how many Britons were living in China. Some 60 or 70 are registered with the mission but an estimated 100 more may not have registered.

Meanwhile, two Queen's Messengers were reported unharmed in Shanghai and under British orders not to proceed to Peking but to return to Hong Kong.

Queen's Messengers escort sealed diplomatic pouches to British diplomatic missions.

Under diplomatic protocol, they are supposed to have freedom of travel and their pouches are not subject to Customs or other inspection.

- Courage -

The Times meanwhile came out today against any idea of Britain's severing diplomatic relations with China.

After arguing the cases for and against a rupture, it said that breaking relations went wholly against British traditions.

"Mr Hopson and his staff have set an example of courage and tenacity. On balance it seems worth hanging on, " it said. - Agencies.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

POLICE HURT IN BOMB BLAST
Missiles Hurled In Western District
SIXTY DETAINED

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Two senior police officers, two men and a 12-year-old boy were injured by three bombs thrown. at them when a police party went to investigate a bomb placed at the junction: of Centre Street and Queen’s Road West, Western District, last night.

The bomb, placed in the street, was believed to have been a “bait” to attract the police so that they could be attacked.

The police later took more than 60 people from two teahouses in Queen’s Road West, including customers and fokis, to a police station for enquiries.

The police believe that the bombs were thrown from one of the tea houses situated in two four-story buildings.

An ambulance, which happened to pass by, was also slightly damaged by the blast.

Meanwhile, the Hongkong border with China was quiet yesterday evening following three incidents which occurred earlier in the day --- two at Mankamto and the other at Lowu.

In the city bomb attack, Mr E, Blackburn, Superintendent of Western Police Station, one of the two police officers slightly injured by the blast, said that they went to investigate the bomb report there shortly before 9 pm.

On arrival, two bombs were thrown to the street from above, injuring Mr Blackburn, Senior Inspector C. T. Lee and three passers-by.

Mr Blackburn said that another bomb was thrown at Army ballistics experts who went to examine the bomb but it did not cause any injuries.

Earlier, large crowds, including many children, gathered and watched the police party. Many of them shouted at the police. They withdrew when the police fired several rounds. No one was hurt.

The injured passers-by were Chan Yiu-ming (46), Cheng Hon-kai (39) and Lee Kwok Keung (12). They were taken to hospital for treatment.

- More Bombs -

Three other bombs were found --- one beside the Queen Victoria Statue at Victoria Park and two on the dam of the Service Reservoir behind the Taikoo Quarters in Quarry Bay.

The bombs were dealt with by Army ammunition experts. No injuries or damage were caused.

Six young men, believed to be students, were seen planting a fake bomb and hoisting a piece of red cloth al Mount Parker shortly after 2 pm.

They were released from police custody after enquiries.

In the morning, an inflammatory poster and three false bombs were found hanging from an upper floor of Java Building in North Point.

On the border with China, two unidentified explosive devices were thrown ten minutes apart on to the Hongkong side of Lowu.

The first was thrown on top of the Immigration Office and blew a hope(sic) in it. It was believed that the missiles came from a group of seven men lying in concealed positions at the Hongkong end of the bridge where they were partly hidden by the bridge girders.

No injuries or serious damage were sustained.

About ten minutes later, another bomb was thrown, this time believed to have come from Chinese territory. This one landed among bushes along the river bank on the Chinese side.

Two or three men were seen preparing to throw another bomb from the concealed position on the bridge but were flushed out by a smoke grenade thrown by a Gurkha soldier.

The men withdrew to Chinese territory, one of them seemingly injured, being helped by his comrades.

At the same time, at least two bursts of machine-gun fire were heard. A Gurkha officer at the observation tower from the Police Post reported that one of these bursts went over the heads of the observers.

At 7 pm, quiet once more returned to the bridge.

Earlier, at the Lowu railway crossing, loudspeakers from the Chinese end of the bridge broadcast announcements shortly before noon in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. They contained false allegations to the effect that farmers and workers from Chinese territory had been prevented from crossing the bridge to tend their fields on the Hongkong side.

The broadcast threatened that if the workers or farmers were obstructed in any way, the Hongkong authorities would “be held responsible for the consequences.”

The Hongkong side retaliated with broadcasts in English and Cantonese made from the railway station, pointing out that the border at Lowu was opened as always for farmers and workers to work in peace.

- Procession -

About 3pm, a group of 53 people walked in procession across the bridge carrying flags and placards. They walked across the railway on the Hongkong side and disappeared round the shoulder of the hill.

At Mankamto Road, the bridge across the frontier was re-opened yesterday. It had been closed for two weeks owing to a series of violent incidents in the area.

Apart from the two minor incidents, there was no further repetition of Thursday's violent assault on these barriers.

The first incident occurred at 6.30 am when a group of 16 men from the Chinese side tampered with the wire barricades. They were repelled by tear-gas and smoke grenades thrown by Gurkha troops.

The, second incident occurred at 6 pm at Lowu when several Chinese farmers, who crossed over to the New Territories to work in the fields, created trouble while returning to Chinese territory.

A few of them remained behind and lingered near the Immigration Office and later threw stones at it.

They were driven back to the Chinese side when Gurkha soldiers threw two tear-gas grenades at them.

During yesterday morning's brief incident a short burst of machine-gun fire was heard from the Chinese side. It is not known from which point the burst came or where it was directed.

The Mankamto bridge was re-opened at 3.15 pm in view of the improved situation.

An official spokesman said that it would also be possible now to resume the transport of farm produce across the bridge under proper control that would ensure law and order and the safety of all concerned.

While the barriers were being removed, Chinese soldiers were seen posing for their own photographers at their end of the bridge.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Boys Stay Out Of Trouble

In contrast with the “many ignorant, misguided youngsters” who had been cajoled or bribed into taking part in disturbances recently not one boy from the Society of Boys’ Centres had done any wrong, Mr Henry Lim, Chairman of the Society's Executive Committee, said yesterday.

Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Society, Mr Lim said that this was not a matter of luck. He believed the Society was reaping the benefits of the moral and financial assistance “so generously rendered by Government and the public.”

He said it was also evidence of the value of the Society, as well as the urgent need for it to expand its projects. In the past year, he said, there had always been more applicants for admission than there were places available. The Society usually had a waiting list of 60 to 80 boys.

Mr Lim announced that a short film on the work and activities of the centres had been made to help publicise them. It would be shown at a premiere next year.

Sir Michael Hogan was re-elected President, Mr L. Holt-Kentweil, Vice-President and Mr Lim was re-elected Chairman of the Executive Committee. Members of the Committee are Dr T. J. Hua, Mr T. C. Chan, Mr Stanley C.D. Kuo, Mr Michael S. H. Chan, Miss Tan Jen-chiu, Mr E. G. Baber, Mr Bill K. S. Leong, Miss J. McEnaney, Mr F. Addison, Mr S. M. Li, representing the Director of Social Welfare, and Senior Inspector J. E. Collins, Juvenile Liaison Officer, representing the Commissioner of Police.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

COLD-BLOODED MURDER CONDEMNED
Residents Mourn Mr Lam Bun

(Photo at right)

Hongkong residents yesterday strongly condemned as “cowardly cold-blooded murder” the brutal attack on Mr Lam Bun, a popular Commercial Radio personality, who died of burns shortly after midday.

Mr Lam, 37, died about 12.30 pm in Queen Elizabeth Hospital after doctors had battled for 27 hours to save his life. His cousin, Mr Lam Kong-hoi, 28, who was with him at the time of the attack, is still in a critical condition.

Four hoodlums set fire to their car as they were driving to work on Thursday morning.

Soon after yesterday's announcement of Mr Lam's death, a large number of people rushed to the hospital to offer their condolences to his widow, Mr Lam's radio fans jammed the switchboard of Hongkong Commercial Radio inquiring about his condition. Many of them went when they were told he had died.

Others, not knowing he was dead, took flowers to the hospital with notes wishing him a speedy recovery.

Mr Lam had been constantly attacked by leftist elements in both Hongkong and Macao for his anti-Communist campaign over the radio.

He is survived by his widow, Anna, and three daughters, aged from one to six years.

The Hon Paul K. C. Tsui, Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, called the attack on Mr Lam and his cousin a “most cowardly act of murdering a courageous man in cold blood.”

“In my view, the opportunists in Hongkong who claim to be patriotic are so afraid of the truth that when some courageous man brought forth convincing statements of truth which the majority of the people want to know and wish to hear they could think of no better method than resort to murdering that courageous man in cold blood,” he said.

“By so doing, they only expose their own weakness. They are alienating the masses by such callous behaviour.”

Mr D. E. Brooks, Director of Broadcasting of Radio Hongkong, described the attack as a completely senseless one. He said that Mr Lam had worked for Radio Hongkong as a leading actor in the “Family Diary” on the Chinese channel for two years from 1957 to 1959, before he joined Commercial Radio.

Mr R. J. Warren, General Manager of Rediffusion, said: “We are most concerned at Mr Lam's tragic death and the great loss this will be to his wife and young family.”

A well-known solicitor, who asked not to be identified, sale he considered that the attack on Mr Lam and his cousin was the most cowardly and the most brutal act of the local Communists.

“I cannot think of anything lower than this and I think the Communists have now sunk to such a depth that no human being would ever think of sinking to,” he said. He fully supported the Hon Y. K. Kan's call for the death penalty for bomb and terrorist offences.

- United Front -

Local Communists, the solicitor said, thought that by murdering Hongkong citizens, they could intimidate the rest. “The more violence and killings they cause, the more united Hongkong citizens would be against the Communists,” he said.

Mr Hilton Cheong-Leen, an Urban Councillor, said that the community would mourn the death of Mr Lam. He urged Government to do everything in its power to bring the culprits to justice.

Mr A. de O. Sales, senior appointed member of the Urban Council, said that he was deeply shocked at Mr Lam's death. “He was a very courageous man who stood on his principles,” Mr Sales said.

Another Urban Councillor, Mr Cheung Wing-in, said that Mr Lam had died for a “good cause” and his death was a sad loss to the Colony. He hoped Government would take appropriate measures to prevent further such incidents.

Dr P. F. Woo, also an Urban Councillor, said: “This is a brutal attack on Hongkong citizens.”

Mr George Ho, Managing Director of Hongkong Commercial Radio Co, Ltd, which has offered a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the petrol bomb attack, said that funeral arrangements for Mr Lam would be announced later.

The Police have also offered a reward of $50,000 in connection with the case.

Meanwhile, several left-wing newspapers applauded the attack on Mr Lam and listed the “crimes” committed by him.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

EXPLOSIVES NOT YET FOUND

A police spokesman said last night the explosives stolen from two private construction sites on Hongkong Island last week had not yet been recovered.

A reward of $50,000 has been offered by the police for information leading to the recovery of the explosives or the arrest and conviction of any person or persons responsible for the thefts.

One lot of explosives was stolen from a dangerous goods store on Tin Hau Temple Hill between 7 pm on August 15 and 6 am on August 16. The second theft occurred on the morning of August 19 when two men gagged and bound a night watchman and broke into a store at a construction site in Repulse Bay.

Meanwhile six young men, believed to be students, were detained yesterday when they were seen planting what was suspected to be a bomb and hoisting a piece of red cloth at Mount Parker shortly after 2 pm. They were later released.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Information On Killers Sought

The police yesterday appealed to Kowloon residents in the area of Man Wei Road, Man Fook Road, Pui Ching Road and Waterloo Road, for information concerning the attack on Mr Lam Bun and his cousin.

The appeal followed the finding of a bucket containing some tools and a tin of petrol in Man Wei Road yesterday morning. Two small flags, one red and the other green, were also found.

A spokesman said that anyone who saw strangers carrying such articles in the area between 8 am and 9 am on Thursday should contact the Superintendent, CID Headquarters, Kowloon, telephone No 800331 ext. 506, or make a report to any police station.

The attackers posed as road repair workers.

The bucket found in Man Wei Road contained a variety of tools, including a saw, two lengths of water piping, hammer, a spanner, pliers, files, brushes, two copies of the Ching Po Daily News, a Communist newspaper, and some cotton waste soaked in petrol."

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Posters Vow Revenge

Three anti-Communist posters appeared in a crowded area of Castle Peak Road, Shamshuipo, last night.

One of the posters said: “Mr Lam Bun, you have been very courageous for your anti-Communist programmes. Rest in peace and we will take revenge for you.”

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Security In Colony Not Threatened

The current disturbances presented no threat to the security of the Colony, Mr E. C Bates, the Commissioner of Police, said yesterday.

Mr Eates, speaking over Radio Hongkong, said that the number of bombs being found is Hongkong fluctuated, but not many of them were real bombs. However, the real ones were becoming more dangerous, he said.

The murder of the two children and Mr Lam Bun, the radio personality, were truly terrorist crimes, Local Communist leaders, he said, were determined to carry on with their terrorist tactics and to try to gain or win the support from the masses, and so force the Hongkong authorities to accept their terms.

Part of the security force’s duty was to frustrate their aim as quickly, and with as little cost, as possible. This, he pointed out, was what the police were doing, with the help of the Army.

As for the increased activity along the border, Mr Eates said this had always been carefully watched by the authorities. He said the leftists’ lack of success here had forced them to try to enlist more encouraging noises from China itself.

- Defeatist Action -

With the Cultural Revolution spreading throughout the Mainland, and with a diet of “forces of hatred" supplied by the Communist press in Hongkong, demonstrations in Chinese territory naturally followed.

In China, he said, such behaviour was increasing and was regarded as almost normal. But this did not commend such activity to the people in Hongkong.

Referring to Mr Fei Yi-ming, publisher of the Communist Ta Kung Pao who recently denied that local “struggle committees" were responsible for the spate of bombings, Mr Eates said this man had not been honest with himself. He pointed out that in the past bombing incidents had been acclaimed in the Communist press as “heroic acts.”

But when the two children were killed in the North Point outrage the Red press had kept quiet for a day or two and then, in the light of public revulsion, tried to clear themselves from blame, he said.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

EX-NEWSPAPER DIRECTORS TESTIFY
‘Severed Connections When Paper Turned Left’
THREE ON SEDITION CHARGES

Two former directors of the suspended Communist newspaper, the Afternoon News, said at Central Court yesterday that they severed their connections with the company when the paper's policy changed.

They are Mrs Tam Chun, the wife of a uniformed police sergeant now living in the staff quarters of Eastern Police Station, and Mr Cheung Foon-yee, of 145King’s Road, fourth floor, North Point.

Mr Cheung now works in the news department of Rediffusion Television.

They were giving evidence at the trial of Wu Tai-chow (32), a director of the Afternoon News; Chak Nuen-fai (49), owner and licensee of the Nam Cheong Printing Co; and Li Siu-hung (44), a director of the Nam Cheong Printing Co which prints the Afternoon News.

Wu, Chak and Li are facing three counts of sedition, two counts of attempting to cause disaffection among police and one count of publication of false news. They have pleaded not guilty.

In addition, six summonses against Afternoon News Ltd and six summonses against Nam Cheong Printing Company will be heard during the trail.

Mrs Tam and Mr Cheung invested $8,000 each in Afternoon News Ltd.

Mrs Tam testified that she invested in the company ten years ago when the paper’s main interest was tipping on horses and dog racing. She said she had not taken an active part in the management of the company.

- Meetings -

“I am a housewife,” she said. “My main part in the company has been as a partner or shareholder.”

Mrs Tam, cross-examined by Wu, said she had attended at least two directors’’ meetings.

She also said the company, at one of the Board meetings she attended, transferred all its power to Wu Tai-chow to look after its affairs.

In April, this year, Mrs Tam said, she went to see another director, Lo Chi-ting, to tell him she was going to withdraw from the company.

“In my opinion, the newspaper seemed to be too left-wing. There had been a twist in the paper's policy. I withdrew myself from the company even though the other party promised to pay me back by instalments,” Mrs Tam said.

She added that another director, Mak Wai-ming, purchased her share in the company. She and Mak went to a solicitor’s office and signed an agreement for the latter to purchase her shares. Later she received a cheque for $4,000 signed by Wu Tai-chow and a further $500 in cash from Mak.

Earlier, Mr David Wilcox, Crown Counsel, told Mr E. Light, the magistrate, that Mak and Wu were the sole remaining directors of Afternoon News Ltd.

He said a warrant had been issued for Mak’s arrest.

Mr Cheung testified that he had worked on the Afternoon News as local News Editor. He said he had known Wu Tai-chow for more than ten years. He severed his connections with the Afternoon News when two of the directors wanted to go left. These directors were Wu Tai-chow and Mak Wai-ming.

- Decisions -

“I got out of the company in March before the disturbances began,” Mr Cheung said.

He said that Lo Chi-ting, also a director, was the company’s manager and made top decisions with Wu Tai-chow, while Mak was Chief Editor.

Earlier, Mr Patrick Wong Kwong-man, Deputy Registrar of Newspapers, had testified that Mak was also the registered publisher of the Afternoon News.

Mr Cheung said his shares in the company were bought by Mak’s wife. Editorial material in the Afternoon News was written by Mak.

“As chief editor, Mak was in a position to make policy decisions, if there was no Board meeting,” Mr Cheung said. He added that no meetings had been called to discuss newspaper policy.

Mr Cheung said Wu never performed any duties in the editorial section of the newspaper.

Questioned by Chak, Mr Cheung said the Afternoon News had its own type-setting department, and prepared casts of newspaper pages ready for printing. These were delivered to the Nam Cheong Printing Co. All proofreading was done before the casts were sent to the printers.

At the outset of the proceedings Mr Wilcox said the six charges related to six publications in the newspaper between June 15 and August 6.

He said the charges covered two months, almost since civil disturbances began disrupting Hongkong.

He told Mr Light to consider what had gone on in Hongkong since May 7 at Sanpokong.

“You should take into account the outbreaks of violence and the bombing of innocent children when you evaluate what is in these articles," he said.

“They have inspired the very sort of violence which led to the tragic deaths of two small children last Sunday,” he added.

Reading translations of passages from the newspapers, Mr Wilcox said some of them contained a direct threat to the lawfully constituted Government of Hongkong.

Others exhorted police to mutiny and bloodshed and contained implied threats to police officers and their families, Mr Wilcox said.

Hearing will continue today.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

MAN DIED IN CELLS
Unanimous Verdict Of Accidental Death

A unanimous verdict of accidental death was returned yesterday by a jury of three men at an inquiry at North Kowloon Court into the death of a PWD worker who died in the cells of the Wongtaisin Police Station.

The man, Tsui Tin-po (42), a Public Works Department artisan, of 212 Block 24, Kun Tong resettlement estate, was found dead in the cells on June 9.

Tsui was arrested following rioting at the Public Works Department’s Electrical and Mechanical workshop in Sung Wong Toi Road, Tokwawan, on June 8.

Dr T. C. Pang, senior police forensic pathologist, who carried out a post-mortem on Tsui on the afternoon of June 9, said that he found bruises on various parts of the body. Internal examination showed a deep bruising of the chest wall. Ten ribs on the left side were fractured, three of these puncturing the chest cavity.

The external injuries, in general, could have been caused by blunt objects of limited size. One of the injuries on the back could have been caused by an anti-riot baton.

In answer to the foreman of the jury, Dr Pang said some of the injuries could have been caused as a result of a fall or collision with other objects.

The cause of death, Dr Pang said, was “traumatic pneumothorax” of fractured ribs.

Mr Victor Lam sat as Coroner at North Kowloon Court.

Mr D. Walsh, Crown Counsel, conducted the inquiry, assisted by Superintendent H. A. Giblett.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

No Case To Answer On Two Charges

Mr J. J. Rhind at South Kowloon Court yesterday ruled that three men and two women need answer to only one of three Charges preferred against them following a police raid on a left-wing union in Mongkok on July 29.

The five defendants, Hui Sai-hung (37), Wong Hing-man (23), Wong Keung (25), Wong Ming (40) and Ma Shuet-fong (20), had pleaded not guilty to possessing inflammatory posters and being found on premises containing corrosive acid and weapons.

- Insufficient -

On completion of the prosecution's case, the magistrate ruled that there had not been sufficient evidence to prove the charge of possessing inflammatory posters and that in his opinion the weapons were mere theatrical swords not capable of causing injury.

Earlier, Detective Cpl Lau Yung testified that on July 29, together with a party of police he raided the Mongkok branch of the Hongkong and Kowloon Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Trade Workers’ General Union at 347-349 Portland Street, third floor.

He said that the five defendants were arrested on the premises where a quantity of bottles containing corrosive acid were found together with Chinese style swords, posters and photographs.

Hearing will continue today.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

Set Fire To Bus: Youth Jailed

A 16-year-old youth was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment by Mr T. L. von Pokorny, at North Kowloon Court yesterday when he was convicted of causing malicious damage to a bus.

A hawker had told the magistrate that he saw the youth setting fire to a bus at the Wongtaisin bus terminus on July 9 and later receiving a sum of money from a man. Damage to the bus, which was severely burnt, amounted to nearly $8,000.

Also jailed yesterday was Wong Kwok-hong (22), a wax polisher, who pleaded guilty to perjury while giving evidence on the youth's behalf at an earlier hearing.

Wong had falsely testified that he and the youth were playing mahjong on the night of July 9.

Mr F. de F. Stratton, before whom the plea was taken, jailed Wong for one year.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

TWELVE SENT TO PRISON

Four men were jailed for eight months and another eight were sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment by Mr G. C. Byrne at North Kowloon Court yesterday after they were convicted of unlawful assembly.

The defendants were arrested by the police in Shanghai Street on June 22.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

Two Watchmen Had Gelignite In Hut

Two watchmen at a dangerous goods store on Tin Hau Temple Hill, where a large quantity of explosives and detonators were stolen last weekend, were fined $400 each by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Causeway Bay Court yesterday when they pleaded guilty to storing two sticks of gelignite without a permit.

Insp I. O. Kam said it was one of the two watchmen who had reported the theft to the police on August 15. Enquiries were carried out and in a hut belonging to the two watchmen the police found two sticks of gelignite.

In mitigation, the watchmen, Cheng Fat (58), of Kun Tong resettlement estate, and Chiu Chun-hing (42), of Ha Heung Road, Tokwawan, said it was due to their carelessness that the gelignite was left in their hut. They had forgotten to return them to the store.

They also said that they had no intention whatsoever of using the explosives.

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SCMP, 26 Aug 1967 (Page 8)

WAH FUNG MANAGER GOES ON TRIAL

The manager and 14 employees of the Wah Fung Chinese Goods Centre at North Point went on trial at Central Court yesterday on charges of being found on premises to which authorised officers were denied access.

The manager, Ng Lun-wa (39), was additionally charged with possession of inflammatory posters, and three of the employees, Yeung Kwok-wing (19), Li Chi-nam (30) and Wong Chi-chung (32), were also accused of obstructing police officers in the execution of their duty.

They have pleaded not guilty.

Insp Cheung Wah-yick testified that about 7 am on August 4, he was second in command of a platoon which went to the second floor of Kiu Kwan Building at 395 King's Road, North Point. There he and his party were blocked by a locked iron grille.

He knocked on the grille with a baton and called out loudly that they were police. Two minutes later, a voice came from inside asking who they were and Insp Cheung again identified himself.

Insp Cheung then heard footsteps and some people were shouting: “Don't open, don't open.”

Insp Cheung said he instructed a constable to force open the iron grille with a crow bar. On entering the corridor, he saw people trying to run into several rooms. They were arrested.

Detective Constable Lam Hing-fat testified that he arrived at the Wah Fung about 7.45 am that day and found a number of posters, goggles and masks on a shelf near the manager’s room. He asked Ng who was in charge of the place and Ng replied that he was the manager. Ng also gave him his calling card.

Later, the posters and other articles were taken to the police station, Constable Lam said.

The hearing, before Mr P. M. Corfe, will continue today.

Insp R. E. Bryant is prosecuting.

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The Straits Times, 26 August 1967, Page 1

Hong Kong border blockade is off

HONG KONG, Friday

THE Hong Kong Government — lifted the blockade of the 17-mile frontier with China today by ordering the barricades at Man Kam To — the last point on the border still sealed this morning — torn down this afternoon.

Officials refused to say whether the reopening of the border was the result of an arrangement with the authorities on the Chinese side. However, military spokesmen said that more People’s Liberation Army troops were seen at frontier points today than had been noted in several weeks. The troops seemed to be keeping belligerent crowds from gathering.

The frontier was closed on Aug. 11 but farmers have been allowed to enter Hong Kong territory to work their fields.

In LONDON, the British Government today barred more than 2,500 communists from leaving the country.

The move was in retaliation for the burning of buildings of the British chancery on Tuesday and subsequent restrictions on British diplomatic personnel there. Two police inspectors and three civilians were hurt in two bomb explosions in the western district of Hong Kong tonight. A Government spokesman said the injuries were not serious. (See Page 2). — Reuter, UPI.

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The Straits Times, 26 August 1967, Page 2

Reds storm HK bridge

HONG KONG, Friday

Gurkhas beat back attempt to pull down barbed wire barricade

COMMUNIST Chinese workers this morning stormed the Man Kam To bridge in another attempt to tear down the barbed wire barricade put up by the Hong Kong Government to seal off the border two weeks ago.

It followed a similar incident at the same spot yesterday afternoon. Three other incidents occurred at the railway crossing point of Lowu and at the border town of Shataukok.

Gurkha troops fired tear gas and smoke grenades to drive the group of 16 Reds to the Chinese side.

A British Army spokesman said the border was quiet after the 6.30 a.m. incident. But the police and soldiers were on the alert for any fresh trouble.

- Incidents -

Local Chinse Communist Press today claimed that in the two incidents yesterday at Lowu, Gurkha troops fired more than 80 anti-personnel tear gas shells and more than 10 incendiary shells and wounded 10 demonstrators.

At the border junction of Man Kam To the Communist newspapers said, more than 80 anti-personnel tear gas shells and about eight incendiary shells were fired by Gurkha troops. There was no mention of anyone injured here.

The Communist papers boasted that "our heroic masses broke the windows of the immigration office. Some of them advanced to the Lowu police station and hurled stones."

In another border incident yesterday, a home-made bomb was hurled in to the Hong Kong side of Shataukok. It was a dud.

Meanwhile Press reports said train services from Canton to Central and Northern China had been completely disrupted in the past nine days.

- Cool Strike -

The independent Ming Pao and several right-wing dailies all quoting arrivals said it was due to a big strike of coal miners.

The only trains in operation was the Canton-Kowloon railway from the South China city to the border town of Shumchun, and the service will also be stopped if the strike continued and coal supply used up. - UPI.

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The Straits Times, 26 August 1967

Comedian dies of terrorist burns

Hong Kong, Fri. - The Chinese radio comedian Lam Bun died today. A Communist terrorist organisation publicly boasted that its executioners had turned Lam and his brother into living torches yesterday.

Lam's death was third caused by the Communist terrorists this week.

On Sunday an eight-year-old Chinese girl and her two-year-old brother were blown apart by a terrorist bomb.

Lam's brother was reported near death in the same Hong Kong hospital where Lam died 30 hours after terrorists bombed their car and then doused the dazed bleeding men with petrol and set them afire. - AP.

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The Straits Times, 26 August 1967, Page 2

Loudspeaker warning

HONG KONG, Fri. - China's Army warned Hong Kong authorities today to let Chinese peasants cross the border or “action will be taken.” The warning, broadcast in the name of the “Shum Chun People’s Liberation Army” through loudspeakers on the Chinese side of the border, did not say what action was contemplated.

It said the British authorities must “clear away all obstructions on the Hong Kong side and protect the peasants who cross to work their fields.”

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The Straits Times, 26 August 1967, Page 2

MAO MEN BURN PAPERS IN LONDON OFFICE

LONDON, Fri. - Smoke rising from chimneys of the Communist Chinese legation yesterday aroused speculation that Peking diplomats in London were burning official documents.

A frontpage report in the London Evening News said one fire at the legation lasted 12 hours, suggesting a heavier than usual destruction of documents normally a routine task for embassies.

The newspaper said there was no official sign that Peking might be breaking off diplomatic relations with Britain of ordering withdrawal of its mission - whose members have been restricted to Central London on British Government orders following the burning of the British mission in Peking. - Reuter.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Day free of bomb incidents

(Photo at left)

No bomb finds were reported in the Colony yesterday, but a fake bomb wrapped in brown paper caused a stir in the departure lounge at Kai Tak airport in the afternoon.

The package was placed on the counter of the Travel Insurance Bureau. An officer of the Police Special Branch carried it to the observation platform, where he unwrapped it, only to find a tin of biscuits.

Meanwhile, police continued to carry on their search of Communist premises in the Colony. They raided the Lighterage Union on the eighth floor of 320 Reclamation Street, Kowloon, at 4.45 pm, and seized a quantity of inflammatory posters on the premises.

- Resistance call -

Twelve people were arrested and will appear In North Kowloon Magistracy tomorrow.

Two wall posters appeared in Bonham Strand yesterday calling on young men in Hongkong to resist being used by local Communists.

The posters read: All young men in Hongkong should realise the target, less they should be used by Communists. All support for Government's action to get rid of the left-wingers and salute to the brave policemen!”

The 75 people detained in the Western District on Friday night, following bomb incidents in which five were injured, were released yesterday after enquiries.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 2)

Acting Governor sends letter of condolence to Mrs Lam Bun

Letters of condolence were sent to Mrs Lam Bun yesterday by the Acting Governor, Mr Michael Gass, and Mr Paul K. C. Tsui, the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

The letters were delivered to the managing director of Hongkong Commercial Broadcasting Co Ltd, Mr George Ho, to pass on to Mrs Lam who was so grieved and suffering from shock that she had been advised by her doctor not to see anyone.

In his letter, Mr Gass, described the attack on Mr Lam and his cousin, Mr Lam Kong-hoi, as “cowardly and outrageous.”

Mr Tsui said that though Mr Lam was “unfortunate to have become a martyr, his greatness

“The police are anxious to interview the writer of a letter which was sent to Hongkong Commercial Broadcasting Co Ltd on Friday, in cnnection with the death of Mr Lam Bun.”

“The writer who signed the letter as “New Territory Resident” is requested to contact the Superintendent of CID Kowloon, telephone 800381 extension 506.”

will last eternally and he will be long remembered by the people.”

The following is the text of Mr Gass’s letter to Mrs Lam:

“I was profoundly grieved to learn of your husband’s tragic death in hospital yesterday, following the cowardly and outrageous attack on him and his cousin the day before.

- ‘Great loss’ -

“I know that nothing can really be done to console you and your three small daughters on your great loss, but I would like to offer you my most profound sympathy which I am sure is shared with a great many persons in Hongkong.”

The text of Mr Tsui's letter to Mrs Lam reads:

“I write to say how deeply shocked and grieved I was to learn of the tragic death of your husband, Mr Lam Bun, who fell into the clutches of the mobsters. Mr Lam upheld justice and raised the voice of solemn righteousness, thus commanding high respect of the masses.

“Though he was unfortunate to have become a martyr, his greatness will last enternally(sic) and he will be long remembered by the people. Whilst I know that nothing I can write to console you in your bereavement I would like to offer you my most profound sympathy.”

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 2)

DEMONSTRATION IN CENTRAL
Police disperse large crowd

(Photo on left)

A banner-carrying, slogan-shouting crowd of about 1,000 young people staged a demonstration outside Central Market in Des Voeux Road yesterday.

The demonstrators, many of whom appeared to be school children, began to assemble in the vicinity of the market shortly after 1 pm.

They assembled in large groups, shouted and wrote slogans on the walls of the market and on the road.

At the approach of the police, some threw paint and other objects at them.

The police replied with volleys of tear-gas.

The demonstrators began to scramble for doorways and the side streets. They were dispersed after ten minutes.

Minutes after the situation was brought under control, the police stopped and boarded a tram in front of the fire station.

- Searched -

Passengers were asked to alight and later one of them was searched and taken away.

Altogether four men and woman were arrested during the demonstration. One of the men was later released while the others were detained for further enquiries.

Banners carried by the demonstrators had slogans such as “Quash the Director of Education’s 13 Regulations,” and “Release Headmaster Wong Kin-lap.”

Meanwhile, the situation at the border remained quiet. Military activity on the Chinese side appeared to be normal, according to a Government spokesman.

At Man Kam To about 50 people crossed the bridge into Hong Kong territory in the morning. Some came with buffaloes and went to work in the fields.

Other people crossed the border at Lowu to load vegetables brought in from China on to a fleet of some 30 lorries which came from Sheung Shui.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 2)

Man accused of having a bomb

A 31-year-old unemployed man was charged in Central Court yesterday with possession of a bomb. He was remanded until Tuesday by the magistrate, Mr A. L. Leathlean.

No plea was taken.

Chan Wing-cheung, of no fixed address, is alleged to have in his possession a bomb outside 15 Cross Lane, Wanchai, early yesterday.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 2)

POLICE SEEK INFORMATION

(Photo)

Did you see anyone carrying a bucket like this (above) in the Waterloo Road Hill area last Thursday morning?

If so, then you should inform the police immediately, for the information you have may help them detect yet another atrocious crime committed by the local Communists --- the murder of a popular radio announcer, Mr Lam Bun, of Hongkong Commercial Radio Broadcasting Co, Ltd.

Mr Lam and another employee of the company, Mr Lam Kong-hoi, were critically injured in an explosion in Man Wan Road, near Man Fook Road in Waterloo Road Hill about 9 am on Thursday when three men stopped their car and threw an object, believed to be a petrol bomb, on the vehicle, causing a fire. Mr Lam Bun died the following day.

A bucket, found in the vicinity of the explosion, contained a variety of tools and some cotton waste soaked with petrol.

The police have appealed to residents in the area for any information they may have concerning the explosion.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 2)

Police to provide protection

Police protection will be provided for anybody who feels that he is in danger from Communist terrorists, according to the Deputy Director of Criminal Investigation, Mr R. F. Smith, yesterday.

Mr Smith said that anybody who had been threatened or who felt his life was in danger could get protection.

The names of those who asked for protection would be kept secret, he said.

It would be unwise to give such people extra publicity, he added.

He said Mr Lam Bun had received a number of assassination threats. But he had not sought police protection.

Mr Smith said: "It is possible that the attack on Lam Bun marks a stepping-up of the Communists’ terror campaign.

“This was the first attack against an individual.

“Before this they were content to leave bombs in the streets or in buildings.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 2)

Sympathy from Taiwan

Taipei, Aug. 26.

Chinese Nationalists here today voiced strong support in condemning left-wing Chinese in Hongkong for the murder of Mr Lam Bun.

The Legislative Yuan adopted an emergency resolution expressing full support to cultural and educational circles in Hongkong and Kowloon “in their life and death struggle against the Communists.”

The local Radio Station Association sent a cable to Mr Lam’s employers in Hongkong commending the latter's “heroic struggle in upholding liberty and truth.”---AFP.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 3)

Boy 16, jailed for burning bus

A 16-year-old boy was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment by Mr T. L. von Pokorny in North Kowloon Court yesterday for setting fire to a bus.

The boy, who was convicted of the offence two weeks ago, had been remanded until yesterday for a training centre report.

The boy was alleged to have committed the offence at the Wongtaisin bus terminus on July 9.

The damage to the bus amounted to $7,896.50.

At a previous hearing a hawker testified that the boy received a sum of money from a man after setting fire to the bus.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 3)

Eleven leftist union members each jailed three years

Eleven members of the Government, Armed Forces and Hospital Chinese Workers’ Union in Shamshuipo were each jailed for three years by Mr T. L. von Pokorny in North Kowloon Court yesterday after they had been found guilty of being found in premises housing offensive weapons, explosive substances and inflammatory posters.

As the magistrate passed sentences, the defendants shouted “protest.”

Deportation was recommended for one of the accused, Chan Cheung-on (45), since he had only been in Hongkong for five years, and had shown “violent objections to the Colony's orderly and peaceful way of life.”

Mr Pokorny said that when the police raided the union at 48 Un Chau Street, fifth floor, on August 1, a large quantity of weapons Including 30 sharpened iron pipes, a triangular file, two daggers, two stevedore hooks, 152 fire-crackers, 101 fuses, 1,000 booklets and 6,000 posters, were found.

- Unlawful -

He added that the weapons were clearly intended to be used for unlawful purposes.

Extra policemen were on guard inside the courtroom. The relatives and family of the defendants left quietly.

In South Kowloon Court, three men were jailed for a year each by Mr J. J. Rhind after they were convicted of being found in a premises containing corrosive acid.

Hui Sal-hung (37), Wong Hing-man (23) and Wong Keung (25), had denied the charge which had been preferred against them following a police raid on the Mongkok branch of the Hongkong and Kowloon Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Trade Worker's Union at 347-349 Portland Street, on July 29.

Two women, Wong Ming (40) and Ma Shuet-fong (20), who were jointly charged with the men, were found not guilty and discharged.

Mr Rhind told the defendants that they had committed a serious offence in that one of the types of acid found was sulphuric and therefore he was bound to impose a deterrent sentence.

In Victoria District Court, a 21-year-old man was sentenced to 15 weeks in prison for being part of an intimidating assembly in North Point last month.

Sze Sze, of Flat F, fourth floor, Majestic Building, 315 King’s Road, North Point, had been acquitted by Judge D. A. Davies of riotous assembly but convicted of forming part of an intimidating assembly.

Judge Davies noted in his judgment on Sze that the young man had only been in the assembly of about 50 people for a very short time, according to the evidence.

He also gave Sze the benefit of doubt by not finding that Sze had thrown a stone at police on that occasion as one constable had claimed in evidence.

However, he found the assembly was intimidating in that some among it did throw stones at the police and found that Sze was part of the assembly which did not disperse at a police warning.

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SCMP, 27 Aug 1967 (Page 3)

Ex-director testifies in sedition trial

A former director of the Afternoon News said in Central Court yesterday that an interview he had had with Radio Hongkong cost him $8,000.

The interview took place after he had severed his connections with the company on May 30.

The director, Mr Lo Chi-ping, of Kaitak Mansion, flat 12, third floor, Kowloon, was giving evidence at the trial of Wu Tai-chow (32), a director of Afternoon News Ltd, Chak Nuen-fai (49) owner and licensee of the Nam Cheong Printing Co; and Li Siu-hung (44) a director of the Nam Cheong Printing Co, which prints the Afternoon News.

The three executives are facing three counts of sedition, two counts of attempting to cause disaffection among members of the Police Force and one count of publication of false news. All have pleaded not guilty.

- ‘Pro-leftist’ -

Six summonses against Afternoon News Ltd and six summonses against the Nam Cheong Printing Co will also be heard during the trial.

Mr Lo said he severed his connections with the company because the newspaper was too “pro-leftist.” “I decided to get out as a matter of principle,” he said.

When he made his decision he went with Mai Wai-ming, another director, to a solicitor’s office and signed certain documents agreeing to sell his share of the company to Mak.

Mak then gave him a cheque for $4,000 and a promissory note for $8,000.

Mr Lo said he did not receive any further money and later he was told that this was because of what he had said in an interview with Radio Hongkong.

Under cross-examination, Mr Lo said he had approached Wu late last year and had told him that the paper was not selling very well because it was too leftist.

“I told him that we should try to be as neutral as possible.”

Mr Lo said he and Wu had a “difference of opinion” about this.

The hearing will continue tomorrow before Mr E. Light.

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The Straits Times, 27 August 1967, Page 13

London gets a taste of Mao-think in the street

LONDON, Sat. — An angry Communist Chinese diplomat recites aloud the Thoughts of Mao Tse-tung in the street outside his legation in Rutland Place.

Britain had just banned Mao's men in London from leaving the country and restricted them to a 10-mile diameter circle of the centre of London. On the right the Chinese Charge d’Affaires, Mr. Shen Ping, and a colleague are escorted out of the Foreign Office after a stern protest and warning over the burning of the British mission in Peking.

Mr. Shen tried to read a Chinese Note protesting against “persecution” in Hong Kong, but the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Arthur J. de la Mare, told him to stop.

The British Charge d'Affaires in Peking, Mr. Donald Hopson, had already to accept it, he said.

Last night police guarding the Chinese legation got a free lesson in Mao-think.

A legation official handed out leaflets reading: “All reactionaries are paper tigers. It is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.”

But a policeman murmured: “Herewith the first lesson.”

The Prime Minister, Mr. Wilson, was ending his Scilly Islands vacation because of the Hong Kong-Peking crisis.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr. George Brown, has already cut short his vacation in Oslo, and Mr. Hopson in Peking was trying to get all Britons out of China.

The weekly Economist said in a lead article entitled "Who's the paper tiger?" that the burning down of the British mission in Peking was a substitute for more forceful action in Hong Kong.

There were many good reasons “for a man in as much a hole as Mao Tse-tung is” for the burning, including using up Red Guard energy, appeasing resentful revolutionaries in Hong Kong who had been complaining about inadequate support, “and, unlike some other targets Chairman Mao would like to take a swing at, it doesn’t hit back.”

It was still too early to say that China, which recently got the H-bomb, had stopped being a force in the world “but it has come pretty close to it.”

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SCMP, 28 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

One Bomb Reported Yesterday

Hongkong experienced only one bomb scare yesterday, but Police were still vigilant in trouble areas making frequent spot checks on suspicious persons and vehicles.

The populace took full advantage of an otherwise bomb-free day and many thronged the streets and shopping centres in large numbers. Theatres enjoyed good patronage as well as restaurants and shops.

In North Point and Wanchai, the streets were filled with large crowds, mostly parents taking their children for strolls or sightseeing.

At night the streets and other open spaces were crowded with people escaping from the sweltering heat.

At Southorn Playground football and basketball games attracted many residents, while hawkers selling fruits and Chinese herb teas did a roaring trade.

Meanwhile, in West Point, where violent rioting broke out recently, the casual pedestrians and open shops contrasted strongly with the scenes of a few days ago.

Causeway Bay was packed with people patronising brightly-lit shops and side street stalls. A market atmosphere prevailed.

In Kowloon, business along the “Golden Mile” was booming as though nothing had happened. However, police were making spot checks keeping an eye open for suspicious characters.

A tourist at the Ocean Terminal was heard to say: “Who said Hongkong was riot-torn --- the place is the same, as the last time I was here.”

Yesterday's bomb was found on the staircase of 113-117, Pei Ho Street in the Shamshuipo district at 9.14 am. It was disposed of by an army ammunition expert.

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SCMP, 28 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Posters In Canton Condemn H.K. Reds
‘TROUBLE-MAKERS NOT SUPPORTERS OF MAO’

Posters all over Canton in the last two days claimed that Hongkong Communists who created the recent disturbances were not the loyal supporters of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, arrivals from Canton said yesterday.

“They are only trouble-makers who have attempted to cause an international problem for China,” the posters claimed.

According to an arrival from Canton yesterday, the posters, named “Red Flag,” had been put up by Chairman Mao's supporters, who arrived in Canton from Peking recently.

The posters claimed that 18 supporters of Chairman Mao were shot dead on August 23 when they returned from Hainan with arms to protect godowns and warehouses in Canton.

According to the posters, the 18 men proceeded to the Har Heung Village to obtain weapons but were all killed when they were attacked by “bandits.”

It stated that, after the attack, the “bandits” scattered in various directions and some proceeded to Shataukok to rouse the people there and create trouble for China.

The posters called on the People’s Liberation Army to take immediate action against these “murderers” who supported the Hongkong Communists to create trouble in Hongkong, the arrivals said.

The posters said that Hongkong's recent disturbances nearly caused an international incident between China and Britain.

The arrival, who asked not to be identified, said that the situation in Canton had not improved, and shooting and killings were still going on in various parts of the city.

"Shops are still closing early in the evenings,” he added.

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SCMP, 28 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

School Pupils Charged

Five pupils from left-wing schools, including a girl, who were arrested in connection with Saturday's lightning demonstration in the Central District, have been charged with unlawful assembly and will appear in Central Court today, a police spokesman said yesterday.

A reporter of the Ta Kung Pao, who was also arrested at the same time, has not been charged, the spokesman added.

A crowd of 1,000 young people, carrying banners and shouting slogans, staged a noisy demonstration outside the Central Market about 1 pm on Saturday. The demonstrators were dispersed by police with tear gas ten minutes later.

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SCMP, 28 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Second Victim Of Petrol Attack Still Critically Ill

Mr Lam Kong-hoi, one of the two victims of Thursday’s Communist terrorist attack which claimed the life of Mr Lam Bun, the popular Hongkong Commercial Radio personality, was still on the danger list last night.

Doctors at) Queen Elizabeth Hospital said Mr Lam's condition was still very critical.

Meanwhile, arrangements for Mr Lam Bun’s funeral have not yet been completed. His body is now reposing in the Hongkong Funeral Home in North Point.

A spokesman for the Commercial Radio said some of the arrangements, including security measures, had yet to be worked out with the police.

Mr Lam Bun and his cousin, Mr Lam Kong-hoi, were attacked in Man Wei Road, Kowloon, shortly after 9 am on Thursday when four men, posing as road workers, stopped their car.

The assailants then poured petrol over the vehicle and set fire to it.

Mr Lam Bun died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Friday afternoon.

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SCMP, 28 Aug 1967 (Page 10)

Extracts From The Chinese Press
BOMB KILLING OF INNOCENT CHILDREN CONDEMNED

THE killing of two children by a bomb placed by Communist terrorists in a side street aroused strong editorial comment in the independent Chinese newspapers last week, with one publication calling on the authorities to make it legal for a “shoot to kill” order to be given in instances where terrorists are seen planting bombs.

The Communist newspapers completely ignored the murder of the children by not printing a word about it, giving the impression to their readers that no such incident had occurred. This prompted one daily to comment that silence was an admission of guilt.

- DEPRAVITY -

Referring to the sacking of the British Embassy in Peking, the New Life Evening Post said that further incidents of the kind should not be ruled out in reply to Britain's restrictions on the movements of Chinese diplomats in the United Kingdom. It added that so long as Hongkong people remained firm and resolved not to be browbeaten, the Communists would not be able to do any serious harm.

The Ming Pao commented that the local Communists, while upholding the thoughts of Mr Mao, went about killing children. It added that while the suspended newspapers also held aloft the banner of Mr Mao's thought they encouraged prostitution and immorality at the same time in their columns --- all of which, the paper said, amounted to blatant depravity of the ideology they sought to promote. In fact it was undermining the dignity of the Chinese nation and even Mr Mao's thoughts. The paper added that the “All-Circles Struggle Committee” must bear the responsibility for the murder of the two children.

The Truth Daily urged Government to introduce more effective measures to deal with such terrorist acts and suggested that deterrents should include provisions for an order to be issued to shoot to kill in cases where the “heartless Communist bandits” are seen to place bombs in Hongkong.

The Sing Tao Jih Pao wondered if the Communists regarded the killing of the two children as a victory for the thought of Mr Mao and asked who was responsible for paying the blood debt.

The New Life Evening Post said that any person with a conscience must certainly have been horrified by the death of the two children killed by a Communist placed bomb in the street where they were playing. Is this part of what the leftists call “heroic struggles?” asked the newspaper.

The Wah Kiu Yat Po said this most despicable and cowardly act called for firm action to wipe out those responsible. It called for organisations suspected of subversive activities to be closed down.

- SCHOOLING -

Referring to the deliberate and complete censorship by the Communist newspapers of the killing of the two children, the Tin Tin Yat Po said, “by their silence they admitted their guilt.”

The Wah Kiu Man Po called on parents to exercise prudence in choosing schools for their children. Other independent newspapers also warned parents of the Ganger of allowing their children to study in Communist-managed schools.

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SCMP, 28 Aug 1967 (Page 10)

COMMUNIST BRUTALITY

THE brutality employed in the killing of the Commercial Radio broadcaster, Lam Bun, was exceedingly shocking --- surpassing the savagery in which two children were killed earlier by a terrorist bomb. Members of the “Hongkong-Kowloon All-Circles Struggle Committee,” representing the small Communist minority, certainly cannot shirk responsibility for these atrocities. Indeed, they stand condemned before the entire community and all law-abiding peoples of the world, for there is not the slightest doubt --- as indicated in their propaganda publications --- that they are behind what can only be described as cold-blooded murders. Their hiring of hardened criminals to liquidate people with whom they do not see eye to eye does also in no way exonerate them from blame. Their resort to violence, indiscriminate bombing and assassination more than justifies universal acceptance of the Hon Y. K. Kan’s advocation(sic) for the death penalty to be imposed on all those convicted for crimes involving the use of lethal weapons.

A leader of the ruthless Communist minority recently claimed that “our compatriots” were being oppressed and contended that the bomb incidents were justified. The oppression referred to is, in fact, legitimate action taken against lawless elements for trying to undermine the security of Hongkong, disrupting peace and order and engaging in subversion. And the measures taken to deal with the destructive activities of the Communists have the unequivocal endorsement of the vast majority of the 3.8m population who, as the Communists are well aware, have given Government their wholehearted support. The cowardly attack on Lam Bun has naturally aroused widespread indignation. There have been some impulsive calls for revenge and reprisals which it would be wise to ignore. The matter must be left to the authorities concerned to deal with. But the community has a duty to assist by co-operating wholeheartedly in providing whatever relevant information they come across to the Police to enable the latter to bring those responsible for the heinous crimes to book.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

ARMY EXPERT KILLED
Blown Off Cliff By Blast From Red Booby-Trap
REWARDS PROPOSAL

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An Army ammunition expert was killed yesterday afternoon when an explosion threw him 200 feet down a cliff near the top of Lion Rock.

An Army spokesman said they were not sure whether the death of the expert, a sergeant of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, was a result of the explosion or the fall.

The sergeant, whose name was withheld pending notification of next of kin, was flown to the hill to dismantle five boards with Chinese characters and three flags.

The sergeant, an Army corporal and some police officers were approaching the boards and flags when the explosion occurred about 1.30 pm. The explosion was believed to have en caused by a booby-trap.

- Doctor Airlifted -

A doctor from the 2/7 Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles was airlifted to the scene but the man died before rescuers reached the scene.

The sergeant’s family is in the United Kingdom.

Three other bombs were found in Kowloon and one on Hongkong Island yesterday. They were detonated by Army ammunition experts and there were no casualties or damage.

The police yesterday offered a $50,000 reward for information following the death in hospital on Saturday of an innocent passerby(sic) who was the victim of a bomb explosion in the Western District the day before.

This brought to a total of $150,000 in reward money so far offered by the police for leads into the recent Communist terrorist outrages which have claimed four lives.

- Bomb Casualty -

The latest reward, valid for six months, is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons responsible for the explosion.

Two men and a 12-year-old boy were injured in the explosion in Centre Street near its junction with Queen’s Road West at 8.45 pm last Friday.

Chang Hon-kai, 39, one of the two men, died of his injuries the following night.

Any person who may have information that could assist the police in their inquiries is asked to contact the Superintendent CID, Headquarters, Hongkong Island, Tel. H-234011 extension 321, or make a report at any police station or to any police officer.

Meanwhile, a, Hongkong businessman yesterday suggested the setting up of a public fund to allocate reward money for information leading to the arrest of those who have caused the death of, or injuries to, Hongkong people.

The businessman, who referred his suggestion to the General Chamber of Commerce, noted that the fund's objective would be to deter terrorism through substantial rewards for information leading to the arrest of the “cowardly murderers” of the people of Hongkong.

- People’s Duty -

“I am aware that Government has already offered rewards for such information but it is not only the duty of Government to protect the people of Hongkong. It is also the duty of all of us who live here to help Government track down the ruthless criminals whose aim is to kill and maim until a terrorised population bows to their will,” he said.

He also suggested that the Fund should be administered by a public body such as the Legislative Council and that rewards should be awarded only on official reports from the Police Department.

He added: “We owe much to those men who have been risking their lives in handling bombs and detonating them. Let us all be on the alert so terrorists will find it impossible to plant them and remain undetected.”

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Big Quantity Of Weapons Found

The police seized a large quantity of weapons in the Quarry Bay area yesterday afternoon.

The weapons, comprising 71 knives and 303 choppers, were found in two baskets in a rubbish dump.

The baskets were discovered by a caretaker who reported to the police.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Charged With Criminal Intimidation

An unemployed man was charged before Mr F. de F. Stratton at North Kowloon Court yesterday with three counts of criminal intimidation and two counts of possession of offensive weapons and inflammatory posters.

Tso Fong (45), of 11 Castle Peale Road, third floor, Shamshuipo, is alleged to have threatened three labourers of the Resettlement Department while urging them to take part in the Li Cheng Uk resettlement estate office strike on June 10.

He is also alleged to have had in his possession 11 posters, an iron hook, a chopper, a knife, a triangular file and two chisels on August 26.

Hearing was fixed for September 25.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Cobbler Jailed For Having Posters

A 37-year-old cobbler was sentenced to two years in jail by Mr T. L. von Pokorny at North Kowloon Court yesterday when he was convicted of possessing inflammatory posters.

Poon Kwok-leung of 23 Dundas Street, second floor, Mongkok, was given an additional two weeks for failing to pay $100 court costs.

Inspector N. B. Dunn said Poon was arrested on July 29 near Tokwawan Road, Mongkok, and three inflammatory posters were found in his possession.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Found Guilty Of Having Posters

A 17-year-old youth who was convicted by Mr T. J. van Rees at Central Court yesterday on a charge of possession of inflammatory posters was remanded seven days for a probation officer's report.

Yau Yik-tin (17), of Block D, Southern Building, eleventh floor, King’s Read, had earlier pleaded not guilty to the charge.

He claimed that he had bought the four posters from a bookshop and that he did not realise they were inflammatory in nature. The posters were found in his bedroom.

In convicting Yau, Mr van Rees said: “Although you may have bought these posters out of curiosity, it is nevertheless against the law to possess material that could incite people to disregard the laws of Hongkong.”

Insp G. A. Murphy prosecuted.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

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Mounting Public Anger Over Death Of Lam Bun

Public anger against the murder of Mr Lam Bun, the popular Commercial Radio personality, gathered momentum throughout the Colony yesterday.

First, a man paraded with banners outside the Bank of China in Central. Then posters appeared in Mongkok, West Point and even as far as Yuen Long. Banners were also seen in the pedestrian subway near the Mandarin Hotel in Chater Road, Central.

The lone demonstrator, aged about 24, paraded in front of the Bank of China for about ten minutes before the police took him away to Central Police Station where he was released after a warning.

The Chinese characters on the banners read: “Live as a lord and die with glory, Mr Lam Bun; learn the righteous spirit of Mr Lam Bun.”

The posters in various parts of the Colony all vowed to avenge the death of Mr Lam.

The three vertical banners on the railing of the pedestrian subway on the Chater Road side were found shortly after 7 pm. They attracted a large crowd.

Meanwhile, the condition of Mr Lam Kong-hoi, the surviving victim of last Thursday's terrorist outrage that claimed the life of Mr Lam Bun, remained unchanged yesterday.

Mr Lam, (28), cousin of Mr Lam Bun, is lying critically injured with severe burns at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and has not been taken off the danger list.

- Petrol -

He and Mr Lam Bun, both employees of Hongkong Commercial Broadcasting Co Ltd, were attacked in their car in Man Wei Road near Waterloo Road Hill on Thursday morning when their assailants poured petrol on the vehicle and set fire to it.

Mr Lam Bun, who sustained critical burns from the attack, died in hospital the following day.

Funeral arrangements for Mr Lam are not yet completed. His body is at the Hongkong Funeral Home, North Point.

A spokesman for Commercial Radio said yesterday that since Mr Lam’s death the station's five telephone lines had been jammed with calls enquiring about the funeral.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Offensive Weapons In Union Premises

Five people, including a 17-year-old girl, were each jailed for 30 months by Mr T. L. von Pokorny at North Kowloon Court yesterday after they were convicted of being found in premises containing offensive weapons and corrosive substances.

They are Cheung Yau-hei (25), of 55 Tam Kung Road, third floor, Shamshuipo; Lam Tim-hei (25), of 10A Tokwawan Road, seventh floor, Shamshuipo; Ngai Fai (33), of 387 Castle Peak Road, fifth floor, Shamshuipo; Lee Suk-wan (17), of Pak Shuen House, Choi Hung resettlement estate; and Yip Sang (24), of 22 Cheungshawan Road, fifth floor, Shamshuipo.

Cheung and Tam were additionally jailed for two months and Ngai one month for contempt of court.

Mr Pokorny acquitted them on the charge of possessing inflammatory posters.

The court was told that on July 29, police raided the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Trades General Union premises at 22, Cheungshawan Road, fifth floor, Shamshuipo.

The defendants were arrested as they were leaving the premises.

All had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Earlier, the magistrate threatened to close the trial to the public after spectators in the public gallery had shouted “protests.”

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Reporter Remanded In Hospital Custody

A reporter of the Ta Kung Pao, arrested on Saturday following a demonstration in Jubilee Street, was remanded seven days in hospital custody yesterday by Mr A. L. Leathlean at Central Court.

The defendant, Wong Chak (40), of 342, Hennessy Road, third floor, Wanchai, is receiving treatment for head injuries in Queen Mary Hospital where Mr Leathlean remanded him.

Wong is charged with uttering an inflammatory speech, unlawful assembly, possession of an offensive weapon, and assault with intent to resist arrest. No plea was taken.

Six pupils and a woman, who were also arrested on Saturday, were remanded for three days by Mr Leathlean.

The defendants who are charged with unlawful assembly, are Tan Kwei-keung (18), of 360, Kam Hoi Lau, Choi Hung Estate, third floor; Wong Hing-hai (23), of 81 Ap Lau Street, ground floor; Choi Wing-chan (19), of 280, Matauwei Road, third floor, Kowloon; Tsang Wai-cheung (19), of 228, Cheungshawan Road, second floor; Ho Ching-wah (18), of 10, North Section, Kai Ling Village, Sheung Shui; Mak Chu (40), proprietress(sic) of the Tai Wan Luen Transport Co, of 302, Queen’s Road Central; and a 16-year-old youth.

Three other youths also arrested on Saturday and charged with possession of inflammatory posters, were remanded for seven days.

Defendants are Ho Tung-kau (21), printing worker, of 20, Finnie Road, ground floor; Yeung Yin-boon (20), of Flat D, Man Chung Mansions, 11th floor, 143, King's Road; and Cheung Chu-yick (17), printing worker, also of 2D, Finnie Road.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Six Residents On ‘Murder’ List Of Agitators

Police were yesterday investigating a report that six prominent Hongkong residents had been marked by local agitators to be murdered, an official spokesman said yesterday.

The “blacklist” was published in an edition of an underground Communist mimeograph news sheet”.

The six were stated to be the Hon Paul Tsui, Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs; the Hon Y. K. Kan and the Hon Li Fook-shu, Legislative Councillors; Mr Pang Fu-wah, Chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk; Mr Louis Cha, publisher of the Ming Pao newspaper; and Mr Luk Hoi-on, editor of the Truth Daily newspaper.

The news sheet hailed the killing of Mr Lam Bun of Commercial Radio, and said that it was a “big achievement” for the “anti-British atrocities” squads. It declared that the six people named above would meet the same fate.

A Government spokesman referred last night to a report prominently published on the front page of an evening newspaper which said that “the Communists have published a death list.” The newspaper said “the threats were published in a special edition of the underground Communist propaganda sheet.”

The spokesman said: “People who read that English language newspaper report may not realise exactly what is the status of the ‘sheet’ to which it refers. To speak of a “special edition of the underground Communist propaganda ‘sheet’ is to give altogether too much credit to what is nothing more than a rash of crude, anonymous scrawls.

- Bombastic Title -

“There is nothing ‘special’ at all about this particular one. Like dozens of others which have been found in recent days, it has a bombastic title and this one, in fact, purports to be the first of its title. It is crudely lettered on one side of a piece of paper and most of it consists of a lame attempt to deny responsibility for the deaths of the two young children in Ching Wah Street while applauding the murder of Mr Lam Bun.

“This is the form and the context in which the names of six prominent Chinese members of the community are published with a threat against their lives.

“No one would wish to minimise the gravity of making such criminal threats. But it is only sensible to see such threats in their proper context and so in proper perspective.

“This is murderous abuse, written and produced in gutter style. It would be wrong to dignify it otherwise. Insofar as it might represent the intentions of the moral outcasts who have already committed sickening murders it must and will be treated seriously. But it will surely have the effect of turning even more decent people away from a campaign which has reached such depths of degeneration.”

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SCMP, 2 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

SUSPENDED NEWSPAPER ‘PATRIOTIC TO CHINA’
Statements By Accused In Sedition Trial

Three men facing sedition charges arising out of articles in the suspended Communist newspaper Afternoon News said at Central Court yesterday that the newspaper was “patriotic” to China.

The three men are Wu Tai-chow (32), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Afternoon News Co Ltd, Chak Nuen-fai (49), owner and licensee of the Nam Cheong Printing Co, and Li Siu-hung (44), a director of the printing company.

They have pleaded not guilty to three counts of sedition, two counts of attempting to cause disaffection among members of the Police Force and one count of publication of false news.

The charges relate to six publications in the Afternoon News between June 15 and August 6.

In unsworn statements from the dock, the three men declared their innocence and said that the newspaper was patriotic.

- Printing Practice -

Chak said that the Afternoon News devoted itself to “anti-persecution” news coverage.

“In my opinion," he said, seditious expressions are anti-persecution expressions. If I did take part in aiding and abetting I would say it was an honour and glory for me.”

Earlier, he had contended that it was normal printing practice for publishers to be responsible for editorial content and not the printers.

Mr E. Light, the magistrate, said the charges did not relate to aiding and abetting a seditious publication but aiding and abetting the printing of a seditious publication.

“In effect,” Mr Light said, “the accused's submission is that it is normal practice in the publishing world in Hongkong for the publisher to take the blame and not the printer.”

Mr David Wilcox, Crown Counsel, said the question rested on whether Chak knew that he was going to print sedition.

Mr Light said that if a printer could be allowed to say that the publisher was responsible for what he printed, then the printer could go round printing anything inflammatory or defamatory.

He said he was prepared to give a ruling on whether special intention or mere printing was necessary to constitute sedition.

"But, at this stage, no ruling is called for.” he said.

Chak said he did not know whether the prosecution was alleging he had given his opinion to the author or altered certain parts of passages concerned.

“Why should I, as a printer, bother to aid and abet the publishers and editors of a newspaper,” he asked.

“Merely on this point I say that I am innocent,’ he added.

- ‘Persecution’ -

Tracing events which led to the disturbances in the Colony, Chak referred to the labour dispute in the Sanpokong plastic factory and said it had developed into a political and racial persecution. Since there were persecutions there were bound to be counter-persecutions, he added.

Wu and Li said the newspaper had been patriotic since its inception.

Wu declared that he had not been responsible for the policy of the Afternoon News. He said Mak Wai-ming was the publisher and editor and had almost full control of the newspaper since June 20.

“Mak Wai-ming, with his wife, has owned 80 per cent of the company's shares since June 20 this year,” Wu said.

“Since he controls the majority of shares, who else can affect him in making policy decisions? All along, Mak has been the chief editor of the newspaper and since the change of ownership he was manager and publisher,” Wu said.

“I can say for sure that the policies adopted by our newspaper were made by him alone. I have never attempted to shirk my responsibilities. If it had been decided that the Afternoon News Co Ltd was guilty of certain offences I can only say that I would be responsible for one-fifth. But if it is decided that the newspaper is guilty, then I should not be responsible at all” Wu added.

He claimed that he was a victim of political persecution because he was patriotic to his country.

“I am innocent,” he declared.

Li said he was a shareholder of the Nam Cheong Printing Co and not the owner or licensee.

“In my opinion, I should not have been arrested. The police should have arrested the manager and licensee. My arrest was an overt act of political persecution against me,” he stated.

- ‘Unjustifiable’ -

“The police could have contacted me in my office at any time. It was unjustifiable for them to have arrested me in the middle of the night,” he continued.

“They searched my premises for an hour and my children were scared and crying. The printing of the Afternoon News by the Nam Cheong Printing Co was solely on a business basis. We got paid for printing it. It could not be defined as aiding and abetting, judging from any angle.

“I personally feel that the Afternoon News has been a patriotic newspaper. It has published patriotic statements and, in my opinion, patriotism is no crime," Li concluded.

Further hearing continues today.

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SCMP, 29 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Three Jailed For Contempt

A woman and two men were each jailed for a month and four others, a man and three women, were each fined $250 or a month's imprisonment for contempt of court yesterday.

Jailed were Lai Kwong (45), Leung Wai-hing (32), and a woman who refused to disclose her name.

The others are Kwok Kam-tong (32), Wai Chun (46), Lau Sheung-hing (23), and Wong Oi (35).

Five of them were arrested and charged with contempt of court after they had refused to stand up when Mr F. de F. Stratton entered the court-room at North Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning.

The other three were arrested when they shouted in court alter the five were charged and sentenced.

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29 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

UK FORCED TO OPEN BORDER IN HONG KONG

Peking NCNA International Service in English 2117 GMT 26 Aug 67 B

[Text] Kwangchow, 26 August--The unswerving fight by Chinese porters at Man Kam To in Poon County, Kwangtung Province, and nearby commune members has forced the British Hong Kong authorities to take away the barbed-wire barriers that closed the border. Their victory has once more pierced through the paper tiger--British imperialism. The porters and peasants received support from the Chinese frontier guards in their heroic struggle.

On the morning of 24 August, 44 men and women commune members of the Lohu production team crossed the Lohu bridge to farm their land in the "New Territories" as had been their custom, When they went past the immigration department of the British

Hong Kong authorities, eight reactionary newsmen from Hong Kong sent by the British were waiting there and wanted to photograph them. The Chinese peasants immediately pointed out that this was a provocation and flatly refused. A British official arrogantly announced that if they refused to have their photographs taken they would not be allowed to cross the border to farm their land. Enraged at this provocation, the Chinese peasants took a recording machine from a reactionary Hong Kong reporter.

The British then fired four teargas bombs and an incendiary bomb. Eight Chinese suffered burns.

In the afternoon the rural commune members went to the bridge and lodged a strong protest with the British authorities for sabotaging the normal routine of passage across the border and for injuring Chinese commune members. The revolutionary-masses of the Chinese customs office and service station of Overseas Chinese also went to the spot to voice their support.

In disregard of the protests by the Chinese peasants, the British Hong Kong authorities fired 62 teargas bombs and an incendiary bomb, wounding 17 commune members, including three seriously. These fascist atrocities by the enemy met resolute resistance from the commune members and other revolutionary masses. The PLA frontier guards also lodged a strong protest with the British Hong Kong authorities and sternly declared: “Now the masses of our side want to cross the border to carry on production. You must remove all barriers and ensure their safety in crossing the border and carrying on production, If you continue your provocations and injure our masses, we will resolutely hit back and you will be held responsible for all consequences.”

The commune members then marched to the bridgehead and crossed the border to carry out production, holding high red banners. portraits of Chairman Mao, and placards inscribed with quotations from Chairman Mao When they walked past the British “immigration department.," they sang "All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers"--a quotation from Chairman Mao set to music~-and shouted: "Long live Chairman Mao!" and "Down with British imperialism!” After they finished their farmwork, the peasants sat under a big tree in front cf the "immigration department" as usual to study Chairman Mao's works. They discussed the feeble nature of the British Hong Kong authorities as paper tigers. They shouted: "We are sure to win; the British Hong Kong authorities are sure to be defeated!" They sang the song"Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman." After they came home the peasants were given a warm welcome by the revolutionary people of all circles in Shumchun.

At 1415 on the afternoon of 24 August, the British Hong Kong army and police again fired teargas bombs when Chinese porters at Man Kam To went to investigate the bridge which the British Hong Kong authorities had blockaded without justification since 10 August. This wanton provocation aroused great indignation among the porters. They expressed their determination to dismantle the barbed-wire barriers and completely defeat this shameful provocation by the British Hong Kong authorities. At the same time the Chinese frontier guards fired guns to warn the British army and policemen. However, the British army and police went ahead and fired 136 teargas bombs and phosphorous bombs at the bare-handed Chinese workers. Some of the teargas bombs and phosphorous bombs were fired onto the Chinese side, wounding 13 Chinese; among whom two were seriously injured. At the same time, they also fired 49 rounds with their guns.

Armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, the Man Kam To porters again displayed the heroic spirit of daring to struggle and fearing no sacrifice. They carried back their wounded comrades in arms, put out the flames of their burning clothes, and struggled amidst the fierce blaze. By 1800 they have completely dismantled the barbed-wire barriers and victoriously returned to the Chinese side.

Early on the morning of 25 August the British Hong Kong authorities stealthily laid barbed-wire at the bridgehead in an attempt to keep the border closed. This fresh provocation of their aroused even greater indignation among the Chinese workers and peasants. The PLA frontier guards issued another warning to the British authorities, declaring that the British authorities must dismantle and move away all obstacles and insure the safety of the Chinese people crossing the border to carry out production. The British authorities were thus compelled to accept the Chinese demand and hastily sent a British official and eight soldiers to the bridgehead and dismantled and moved away the barbed-wire they had just laid. The Chinese workers and peasants there shouted "Long live Chairman Mao!" and "Down with British imperialism!" and crossed the border to deliver goods for or do farmwork.

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The Straits Times, 29 August 1967, Page 1

Threat to anti-Reds
UNDERGROUND PAMPHLET SAYS THEY WILL BE ELIMINATED LIKE SLAIN RADIO MAN
Six listed for death

SIX prominent anti-communist Chinese leaders were marked for death by communist terrorists today.

A "death list" was published in an underground communist terrorist propaganda sheet, which said the six would be eliminated like radio comedian Lam Bun last week.

This six are Mr. Paul Tsui, Secretary for Chinese Affairs in the Hong Kong Government, two Legislative Councillors, two newspaper executives, and the chairman of a village elders’ association.

- Police protection -

Terrorists bombed Lam Bun’s car last Thursday, poured petrol over him and his brother and set them afire.

Lam Bun, 37, died 30 hours later. His brother is fighting for his life in hospital.

Officials said they believed that the attack against Lam Bun marked a shifting of communist terrorist activities from indiscriminate bomb planting to pinpointed assassination attempts.

The police said they would offer protection to anyone who had been threatened, or who had reason to believe his life was in danger from terrorists.

-‘Not intimidated’-

Officials are known to have believed Mr. Paul Tsui was high on the terrorists’ list and he reportedly has been guarded for some time.

Told of the published threat, Mr. Tsui said the communists "have never frightened me in the past and I will not be intimidated now by these cowardly tactics."

One of the two Legislative Councillors marked for death, Mr. Li Fook-shu, said he would try to live “as normal a life as possible” but would take “every precaution to guard against surprise attack.”

The other councillor, Mr. Y.K. Kan, refused to comment.

The other three men on the “death list” are Mr. Louis Cha, publisher of the anti-communist Chinese language newspaper Ming Pao, Mr. Luk Hoi-on (Henry Luk editor of the anti-communist newspaper Chun Pao (Truth Daily), and Mr. Pang Fu-wah, chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk (Village Elders Association). They were not immediately available for comment.

- 4 deaths -

A 39-year-old man was latest victim of terrorist attacks — making a total of four deaths in one week.

Chan Hon-kai, an employee of a streetside stall and one of the civilians injured on Friday night in a bomb attack against the police in the western district of Hong Kong island, died late Saturday night. His death was not disclosed until this morning.

Two small children blown to bits the day before Lam Bun was attacked.

An old beggar picked up a bundle last night in front of a cinema and it exploded in his face. Surprisingly. he was not hurt. - AP, UPI.

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The Straits Times, 29 August 1967, Page 1

Booby trap blast kills expert

Hong Kong, Mon. - A British Army ammunition expert was fatally injured today when an explosion threw him 200 feet down a cliff in Kowloon.

The expert, a sergeant of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps., was dismantling a suspected booby trap on a hill near Kaitak airport, according to a Government spokesman.

The spokesman said the sergeant had been sent to the Lion Rock Hill area to dismantle five boards inscribed with Chinese characters and three flags attached to each other by wire.

- 'Copter aid -

A doctor from the British military hospital in King's Park, Kowloon, was airlifted by helicopter to give the sergeant treatment.

He died while the RAF mountain rescue team stationed at Kaitak was on its way to the scene.

The rescue team later brought the body down from the hill.

The name of the sergeant is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. - Reuter

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The Straits Times, 29 August 1967, Page 3

All quiet on HK border

HONG KONG, Mon.— Chinese workers crossed the re-opened border bridge at Man Kam To peacefully today to work in fields in British territory after a quiet weekend along the troubled frontier.

The bridge was re-opened on Friday after being closed for two weeks following attacks on the police post there by mainland Chinese - Reuter.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

‘Britain’s Obligation To Defend H.K.’

Britain is obligated to defend the security of Hongkong, Lieut-General Sir Thomas Pearson, Commander, Far East Land Forces, said yesterday.

Gen Pearson gave this assurance at a press conference before his departure for Singapore after a two-day visit here.

Asked if the situation in Hongkong had any effect on Britain's proposed troop withdrawal from the Far East, Gen Pearson said: “Britain has her obligations here to defend the security of one of her colonies and this obligation has of course to be met, and judging from what has been said in the House of Commons by the Foreign Secretary that we intend to be firm over Hongkong, I can’t see that defence cuts’ really enter into this sphere.”

- Gallant Job -

Commenting on the death of the Army ammunitions expert on Lion Rock on Monday, Gen Pearson said: “The Army bomb disposal experts are doing an extremely gallant job. There will always be casualties but they accept the risk ns part of their job.”

Gen Pearson said he did not think an Army border patrol would be a permanent assignment because of the recent disturbances. “It would depend entirely on the situation."

“I would certainty not wish to see it become a military responsibility,” he said when asked if he would like to see the military have more power in dealing with the left-wing elements here. “It is the responsibility of the civil power. The military is there only to aid and to assist when necessary."

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

DISTURBANCE IN KOWLOON
Man Shot Dead After Bomb Attacks On Police
CROWDS PAINT SLOGANS

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A man was shot dead last night by the police in the Tung Tau resettlement area, Kowloon City, after two police cars were attacked with bombs shortly before 9 pm.

Two large crowds had gathered in the area and were writing slogans with white paint on the road surface and walls and putting up posters.

They gathered in five streets in the area. The first group comprised about 200 while the other was between 600 and 800.

As the police arrived on the scene a bomb was thrown at their vehicle but missed.

A red cloth and two suspected bombs were found in Tung Woo Road. Another police vehicle approaching the scene in Tung Fat Road had a bomb thrown at them by the man who was believed to have been shot dead later.

But the bomb did not cause any injury to the policemen. Later, a burning torch was thrown at them.

The police then fired a round from a Greener gun and a man among the crowd was killed.

Other people later set fire to some baskets in the middle of a street. But the police fired two tear-gas shells and dispersed the crowds.

At 9.30 pm, the police swept through the area and found six suspected explosive devices.

Army ammunition experts later detonated two genuine bombs. The others were found to be fakes.

The police also conducted a search in the area and later arrested nine people.

Earlier, two bombs were detonated by explosives experts. The first one was reported at the RAF Officers’ Mess at Kai Tak about 10 am. The other one was found at the Choi Hung Housing Estate at noon.

- Union Raided -

There were no reports of bombs on Hongkong Island.

Meanwhile, a raid was carried out by a party of police at the Hongkong and Kowloon Metal Workers’ Union premises on the third floor and roof of 46 Tin Kwong Road, Tokwawan, at 8.25 pm.

Two women found on the third floor were arrested and a quantity of offensive weapons were seized.

On the roof, no one was seen, but some suspected petrol bombs, a quantity of offensive weapons and inflammatory posters were seized.

The women will appear in North Kowloon Court tomorrow on a charge of being in premises where offensive weapons were found.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

COMPANY EXECUTIVES JAILED FOR SEDITION
Six-Month Suppression Order Against Newspaper

Three company executives were jailed for three years at Central Court yesterday for sedition, incitement to disaffection among members of the police force and the publication of false news.

Their companies --- the Afternoon News Co, Ltd, and the Nam Cheong Printing Co --- were each fined a total of $12,000 on ix summonses.

Mr E. Light, the magistrate, granted the Crown's application for a six-month suppression order against the Afternoon News.

The executives, Wu Tai-chow, (32), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Afternoon News Co, Ltd; Chak Nuen-fai (49), owner and licensee of the Nam Cheong Printing Co; and Li Siu-hung (44), a director of the printing company, had denied six charges against them.

Finding them guilty on the evidence presented, Mr Light said that no reasonable tribunal in any civilised country could have reached any other conclusion.

Mr Light sentenced the defendants to 12 months’ imprisonment on each of three counts of sedition, the terms to be served consecutively, and 12 months’ imprisonment on each of two counts of attempting to cause disaffection among police and 12 months’ imprisonment on one count of publishing false news.

The last three sentences are to be served concurrently with the sentences for sedition.

Mr David Wilcox, Crown Counsel, informed Mr Light that Wu and Chak had previous convictions for publishing obscene material.

Wu had been fined $400 for publishing obscene matter in March, 1962, and a further $5,000 for publishing indecent material in March, 1963.

Chak had been fined $500 for printing indecent material in March, 1962, and $3,000 for publishing obscene material in March, 1963, Mr Wilcox added.

Li had no record.

Both Wu and Chak admitted their previous convictions but said they were irrelevant to this case.

Mr Light said that as the records concerned publications they were quite relevant.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Left-Wing School Pupils Accused Of Conspiracy To Terrorise Public

Two pupils of the left-wing Pui Kiu Middle School, allegedly apprehended while carrying a package resembling a bomb, were yesterday remanded, one in custody and the other on bail, till Friday.

Yau Tat-yan (17), of 6 Blue Pool Road, first floor, refused at one stage to allow his bail to be extended, but he subsequently agreed to this being done.

Before the proceedings began before Mr T. J. Van Rees at Central Court, Yau wanted to sit in the dock with his friend, a boy of 15 who was not represented by counsel, but court officials objected to this. He eventually sat next to his counsel.

Both pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiring together to effect a public mischief. The Crown alleges that they agreed to place a package designed to resemble an explosive device in order to terrorise members of the public and to impede people properly going about their business.

They also face two counts each of obstructing police officers in the execution of their duty. Yau is further charged with making an inflammatory speech and the 15-year-old boy with being in possession of an inflammatory poster.

- Struggled -

Insp Tsui Yiu-kwong testified that on the night of August 10, a company of police, of which he was in command, saw the two youths in Sports Road, Happy Valley.

They were acting suspiciously, Insp Tsui said, so he instructed two constables to search them. They tried to escape and a struggle ensued in the course of which one of the constables cried out: “Bombs, bombs,” the Inspector said.

Insp Tsui added that he also heard Yau shot “We are Chinese, you yellow-skinned running dogs. You are scared to death when you see our false bomb.”

After the youths were subdued, he called for a ballistics expert but the suspected bomb turned out to be a fake, Insp Tsui said.

After making an unsworn statement from the dock, the 15-year-old boy asked that Yau be allowed to give evidence as a witness for his defence but Mr Van Rees, after due consideration, ruled that Yau could not be a defence witness.

The proceedings took another tum when Mr C. Wong, Crown Counsel, said he was not sure as to whether the Crown had the right to make a final address. He said he was not certain of his position in view of the fact that Yau was defended by counsel whereas the younger boy was not.

Mr Van Rees said he was of the opinion that the Crown did not have the right lo make the address in this situation but adjourned the hearing to give Mr Wong time to look further into this point.

Yau was represented by Mr D. W. Ling, of Wilkinson and Grist.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

More Support For Government

Another seven representative organisations have pledged support for Government’s firm determination to maintain law and order in Hongkong.

This brings to 666 the total number of organisations stated their support for the authorities.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Name Withheld

The name of the Army ammunition expert killed on Monday by a bomb planted on Lion Rock was still withheld yesterday because the Army were unable to contact the next of kin.

An Army spokesman said that the wife of the murdered sergeant was on a tour abroad.

Funeral arrangements could not be made until the next of kin was informed of the death.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Planted False Bomb Under Rail Bridge

A man was yesterday jailed for one year by Mr T. L. von Pokorny at North Kowloon Court for placing a cardboard on a road to make the public think it was a bomb.

Kwong Yuk-nam (19), unemployed and of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to a charge under the Emergency Regulations of unlawful interference with the use of a road.

Insp N. B. Dunn told the court that on August 16, a police officer saw Kwong placing the box under the railway bridge at the junction of Boundary Street and Embankment Road.

He said that on further investigation the officer found slogans of “Blow the white-skinned pigs to death” and “Fellow countrymen do not come near,” written on the box.

Kwong was arrested on suspicion that the box was a bomb. The whole area had to be cordoned off for about two hours while Army ballistic experts examined it, the inspector said.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

POLICE DISCOVER FACTORY FOR MAKING BOMBS

The police yesterday discovered a factory for making home-made bombs and detained 15 people for questioning in the course of three raids.

The factory was found when the police raided some huts on Mount Butler, above Tai Hang Road, just before dawn.

Among the articles seized were a bomb, black powder, taw watches and some devices for making bombs as well as a quantity of chemicals believed to be used for making explosives.

The chemicals, in bottles, have been identified as nitric and sulphuric acids.

- Experiments -

The powder was identified as lead nitrate and this, according to a Government chemist last night, indicated there had been experiments in making explosives.

The raid on Mount Butler followed reports that home-made bombs were being made in the area near the Tiger Balm Gardens.

Eleven people were arrested in this raid.

Earlier, the police surrounded two villages in Taipo and after searching for two hours took away two villagers and a former bus worker.

The villages raided were Sun Hong Ha and Lung Ha Pei in Lam Cheung Valley.

In Kowloon City, a 21-year-old man was arrested and a small quantity of gunpowder, chemicals and iron nails were seized when the police searched a flat In the area shortly after 3 pm.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Reporter Arrested In Court

A reporter of the Hongkong Commercial Daily newspaper was arrested in a Central courtroom yesterday when he allegedly attempted to pass a note to three prisoners in the dock.

Shum Kai-lum (32) was later changed with conveying an unauthorised article to prisoners and obstructing a police officer.

He appeared before Mr P. M. Corfe late yesterday afternoon.

- No Plea -

Insp B. L. Coak asked Mr Corfe to remand Shum in custody until Friday when a plea would be taken.

Reading from the facts sheet, Mr Corfe told Shum that the Crown was going to allege that he walked in front of the dock and dropped a piece of paper into it.

Mr Corfe said the offence allegedly occurred at 10.15 am.

(At this time, Mr E. Light, another magistrate, had just convicted three people on sedition charges).

Shum protested against what he called the “unlawful arrest” of a “patriotic” reporter.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

Round-The-Clock Protection

The Central Government Offices were heavily guarded by detectives when the Executive Council held a meeting yesterday.

This measure followed Communist threats to kill three Executive Councillors, two right-wing newspapermen and a radio personality.

It was learned that detectives are guarding the threatened men round-the-clock.

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SCMP, 30 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

WAH FUNG EMPLOYEES JAILED

The manager and 14 employees of the Wah Fung Chinese Goods Centre at North Point were jailed by Mr P. M. Corfe at Central Court yesterday following conviction on charges under the Emergency Regulations.

All of them, including a woman, were jailed for two months each for denying police access to Kiu Kwan Building which houses the department store.

Three of them, found guilty of obstructing the police, received an additional jail sentence of a month each to run consecutively with their other sentence.

They are Yeung Kwok-wing (19), Li Chi-nam (30) and Wong Chi-chung (32).

The manager of the store, Ng Lun-wah (30), was found not guilty on another charge of being in possession of inflammatory posters.

The 15 people were arrested an August 4 during a police raid on the premises of the Wah Fung Chinese Goods Centre.

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30 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

PEKING DEALS WITH U.S. BETRAY VIETNAMESE

Moscow Radio Peace and Progress in English to Asia 1000 GMT 29 Aug 67 L

(Text) World public opinion has learned with indignation of the new acts of treason by the Mao Tse-tung group with regard to the struggle of the Vietnamese people. It was learned that the U.S. Seventh Fleet recently bought, through the intermediary of a Hong Kong firm which is controlled by Peking behind the scenes, electronic equipment and 15 landing craft to be used in the Vietnam war.

Peking's agents do dirty business of this sort in Macao, Singapore, and other towns. But it is in Hong Kong that the alleged ultrarevolutionaries from Peking conclude their biggest business deals with U.S. imperialism, the aggressor. For this reason, the Johnson government maintains a special consulate in that city with a large staff. Mao Tse-tung's emissaries have the closest links with the consulate.

All this unmasks not only the Mao Tse-tung gang's betrayal of the Vietnamese people, but also makes it possible to understand why Peking does nothing to free Hong Kong from the yoke of the colonialists. Mao Tse-tung's gang considers Hong Kong not a colony in which Chinese workers are oppressed, but as the door to business with imperialism.

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The Straits Times, 30 August 1967, Page 1

Bomb hunt in Hong Kong

HONG KONG, Tues, — Police early today carried out a search of huts perched precariously on the slopes of Mount Butler in the Tai Hang district of Hong Kong Island where they suspected home-made bombs were being manufactured. About 200 policemen, assisted by a company of the 1st Bn., Welch Regiment. converged on the scene and began the climb up the narrow paths leading to the huts.

Eleven people were detained for questioning.

In one hut, police found a live bomb, a quantity of black powder, two watches and some devices for making time-bombs as well as a quantity of chemicals believed to be used for making explosives.

- No resistance -

A police ballistics officer threw the black powder and chemicals into a nearby stream after examining them.

Police met no resistance. The search lasted five hours.

Meanwhile, all was reported quiet along the Hong Kong-China border. - Reuter.

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The Straits Times, 30 August 1967, Page 24

Troops step up check on exodus of refugees

HONG KONG, Tues. - Communist Chinese border troops have tightened measures against a possible mass exodus of refugees to Hong Kong. It was reported today by travellers from Canton.

They said thousands of Canton residents were fleeing because of continuous fighting between opponents and supporters of Chairman Mao.

"The residents fear all-out civil war will erupt in Kwangtung province, " one traveller said, "and the army seems to fear there will be a mass exodus of refugees attempting to get to Hong Kong."

He quoted Canton residents as saying that at least 50,000 had fled Cnaton and were trying to make their way to the Hong Kong border.

Authorities here, however, said they had no indication that refugees were massing for a border crossing attempt. - A.P.

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The Straits Times, 30 August 1967, Pages 1&24

Mao's men in London brawl

LONDON, Tues.

— Chinese wielding baseball bats dashed with truncheon-swinging police outside China's legation here today and several people were reported injured. One Chinese was seen shrieking and waving a large axe.

Police, demonstrators and legation staff were involved in two violent clashes outside the legation. The first was in front of the building.

Chinese Charge d'Affaires Shen Ping immediately went to the Foreign Office to protest that police had beaten up a member of his mission. The charge was denied.

- Scuffling -

The second clash came as Mr Shen drove in his big black Mercedes up to the garage at the back of the legation.

Violent scuffling outside the legation today ended with blood streaming from one diplomat's face and a policeman taken to hospital with chest injuries.

Several other police were hurt.

Later reports said that in the second clash, a number of policemen and Chinese staff were injured.

Mr Shen also protested today about restrictions placed on the movement of members whenever they leave the legation to ensure they do not travel more than five miles away.

There have been a number of incidents outside the legation since the sacking of the British diplomatic offices in Peking a week ago.

But these had involved only shouting by a few demonstrators and the waving by the Chinese diplomats of the Thoughts of Mao Tse-tung.

Today's violence was the first.

After Mr Shen called at the Foreign Office today, the British government issued a statement saying:

"The allegations about 'beating up' were denied, and Mr Shen's attention was drawn to the provocative actions of members of the Chinese mission.

"He was told that the British mission in Peking had been burnt, the Charge's house looted, and members of our mission genuinely beaten.

"A note of protest about this incident had been returned. In the circumstances, did the Charge really expect his protest to be taken seriously?"

Today's trouble started when a Chinese dashed down the legation steps and waved his book of The Thoughts of Mao before a group of spectators who booed five diplomats who appeared at a side-door.

Fighting broke out and more Chinese emerged from the building to help.

- Shouting -

While police tried to stop the skirmishes other Chinese waved books of Mao's thoughts and shouted, "Look at this British democracy, "

For 20 minutes after the clash, Chinese stood in a row outside the legation, singing and shouting slogans through a megaphone.

The clothing of one was bloodstained and another was wearing a torn shirt. The Chinese said it had been ripped in the fight.

They re-entered the buildings when police cleared the crowd of onlookers which had grown to about 200.

It is understood that when the jeering burst out, the Chinese were preparing to film a man emerging from the legation's side-door waving a book of Mao's thoughts.

* China has returned Britain's note protesting against the attack and burning of the British Chancery in Peking by demonstrators on Aug. 22, British officials said here today. - Reuter.

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The Straits Times, 30 August 1967, Page 24

3 pro-Peking newsmen are jailed for sedition

Three pro-Peking newspaper executives were today sentenced to three years imprisonment each after being found guilty of sedition charges arising out of articles in the suspended Afternoon News.

The three sentenced today were:

WU TAI-CHOW, chairman of the board of directors of Afternoon News Co. Ltd.;

CHAK NUEN-FAI, owner and licencee of the Nam Cheong Printing Company. which printed the paper, and

LI SUI-HUNG, a director of the printing company.

They were found guilty on three counts of sedition, two counts of attempting to cause disaffection among members of the police force and one count of publication of false news.

-‘Not guilty’-

Yesterday, the three in unsworn statements pleaded now guilty to the charges and sald the Afternoon News was “patriotic to China” and only devoted itself to printing “anti-persecution” news.

The Afternoon News, along with Hong Kong Evening News and Tin Fung Yat Pao was suspended on Aug. 17.

Wu, Chak and Li face additional charges in connection with articles appearing in the Hong Kong Evening News. Wu is also the publisher of the Hongkong News and Chak and Li its printers.

- Paper banned -

Before sentence was passed today it was revealed in court that Wu had been fined HK$400 In March 1962 for publishing indecent matter and HKS$5.000 in March 1963 for producing an indecent publication.

Chak was also fined HK$400 in 1962 and HK$3,000 for printing obscene material.

Li had no previous convictions.

At today’s hearing, a leftist reporter tried to pass a note to the three men.

A police officer noticed the action and rushed into the dock end retrieved the note before the accused had the chance to read it.

The magistrate, Mr. D Light, today also ordered that the Afternoon News be banned for six months — Reuter.

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SCMP, 31 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

BOMBS THROWN AT POLICE
Suspect Shot Following Demonstration
KOWLOON INCIDENT

(2 Photos at right)

A suspected bomb thrower was shot and arrested by the police at Cheungshawan Road, Shamshuipo, last night, following a demonstration in support of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's protest over Tuesday's incident in London.

The man, aged about 35, believed to be a former bus driver, was shot after he was seen throwing a bomb at two policemen on patrol in the area.

The two police constables had earlier encountered more than 100 demonstrators at the junction of Cheungshawan Road and Pak Hoi Street, about 8 pm.

The crowd put up a red banner along the railings in the middle of the road. The Chinese characters on the banners supported the Chinese Foreign Office’s protest to Britain and condemned “British fascism.”

- Swelled -

The crowd, which had swelled to about two hundred, then moved along to the junction of Nam Cheong Street and’ Cheungshawan Road, about 100 yards from the banner.

Three men from the crowd then pulled a traffic pagoda to the middle of the road and attempted to set it on fire.

As the two constables tried to disperse the crowd, one man was believed to have thrown a parcel at the policemen.

As the constables tried to stop him, the man ran back towards Pak Hoi Street. The policemen gave chase and fired at the man.

After running for about 100 yards, the man fell. It was later discovered that he had been hit on the leg.

Soon after, police and army reinforcements arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area.

Near the banner, a total of four bombs were discovered. They were later detonated by army ammunition experts.

As the first bomb was set off, another bomb was thrown from a building at a party of policemen stationed at the junction of Nam Cheong Street and Cheungshawan Road.

- Shouted -

Inspector J. M. D. Hamilton, who saw something bouncing along the road, shouted a warning to his men. The bomb exploded seconds after the police scattered from their position and only one constable was slightly injured.

The explosion also damaged the wheel of a police landrover and the petrol tank of another.

There were a total of seven explosions including those detonated by the Army in last night’s incident.

The police arrested three people, all of them were injured. Three policemen and a pedestrian were slightly injured by the explosions.

The police received a total of thirty-four reports of bomb finds in various districts on both side of the harbour yesterday.

They were all disposed of by Army ammunition experts.

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SCMP, 31 Aug 1967 (Page 1)

Dead Soldier Identified

The Army authorities yesterday released the name of the RAOC bomb expert who was killed near the summit of Lion Rock on Monday.

He was 26-year-old Sgt Charles Workman, of 24 Laugh View Bungalows, Ballyunford, Country Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The Army explained that the sergeant's name was withheld longer than usual because Mrs Workman, the deceased's wife, could not at first be traced.

Mrs Workman was later located in Eire where she had gone on a holiday.

Mrs Workman will be flying to Hongkong within the next two days. She will be accompanied by her father.

Sgt Workman was transferred to Hongkong from Singapore only a few weeks ago to help Army ammunition experts deal with Communist bombs.

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SCMP, 31 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

CLAIMS FOR EX-GRATIA PAYMENTS

The Compensation Board yesterday announced procedure for submission of claims for ex-gratia payments arising out of the disturbances since May.

The Board said notice of intention to make a claim must be given in the first instance by letter addressed to the Secretary of the Compensation Board at the Colonial Secretariat, Central Government Offices.

Such notice must be received not later than September 30 in respect of injury or death which occurred between May 11 and August 31.

Notice of intention to make a claim in respect of injury or death which occurred after August 31 must be received not later than one calendar month from the date of such injury or death, the Board said.

Applicants should state their full name and postal address and should specify whether the claim is in respect of injury or death.

Official claim forms will be forwarded to intending claimants upon receipt of the notice.

Copies of the Compensation Board’s Terms of Reference are available at the counters of the Public Enquiry Centres and at the District Office of the New Territories Administration.

The Compensation Board, which has been appointed by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, comprises Judge T. L. Yang, Chairman, Messrs D. A. C. T. Hancock, Samson Sun and Donald Chan Siu-tung, members, and Mr G. N. van Langenberg, Secretary.

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SCMP, 31 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

MR H. O. LUK RETURNING TO H.K.
Taipei, Aug. 30.

Mr Luk Hoi-on, one of the six people earmarked by the Chinese Communists for assassination, said in a statement today that he would return to Hongkong as soon as possible “to carry on the anti-Communist struggle.”

Mr Luk, who is also known as Mr Henry Luk, is Editor-in-Chief of the Truth Daily.

He came to Taipei in early August to attend the Overseas Chinese Conference on Culture and Education.

“I am not scared at all,” Mr Luke declared in his statement, “Ever since the Communist-inspired riots broke out in Hongkong in May, newspapermen who uphold the principle of justice have become targets of threat and intimidation.”

“The violence of the Communists has exposed to the full extent the nature of their cruelty,” he added. "I am convinced that all the 4m residents in Hongkong and those in the free world will be on my side and denounce the terrorist activities of the Communists.”---AP.

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SCMP, 31 Aug 1967 (Page 6)

POLICE SEEK IDENTITY OF DEAD MAN

Police yesterday appealed to the public for information about a man who was shot dead during riots in the Tung Tau resettlement area in Kowloon on Tuesday night.

The man was injured when the police fired a round from a Greener gun to disperse two large crowds of trouble-makers who were writing slogans on the road surface and walls, putting up posters and attacking two police cars with bombs.

He was certified dead on arrival at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

With hair parted to the left, the man was between 23 and 25 years old and about five feet seven inches tall.

He was wearing a light blue shirt with short sleeves, a pair of European-style trousers, red socks and black leather shoes.

Anyone who has any information that can assist in identifying the man is asked to contact the police.

Meanwhile, two of the nine people arrested during the disturbances will appear at North Kowloon Magistracy today, a police spokesman said.

A 15-year-old boy will be charged with throwing an explosive substance with intent to cause bodily injuries. A man, aged 22, will be charged with taking part in an intimidating assembly and painting an inflammatory slogan.

The other seven were released yesterday.

***

SCMP, 31 Aug 1967 (page 6)

Second Victim In Petrol Bomb Attack Dies

Mr Lam Kwong-hoi, cousin of the late Mr Lam Bun, of Commercial Radio, died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital early yesterday, five days and 19 hours after they were brutally attacked last Thursday.

He was the sixth murder victim of Communist terrorism.

Mr Lam Kwong-hoi, who was a studio technician of Commercial Radio, was 28 years of age. A bachelor, he is survived by his parents, six sisters and a brother.

The two cousins were leaving their Waterloo Road Hill home early on Thursday morning when their car was stopped in Man Wei Road by four men. The assailants poured petrol on them and set the car on fire.

Mr Lam Bun died in hospital on the following afternoon.

The attackers left behind a bucket containing some tools and a tin of petrol in Man Wei Road. Two small flags, one red and the other green, were also found.

Rewards totalling $150,000 have been offered by Commercial Radio and the police for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the petrol bomb attack.

The police have also appealed to residents living in the area for information about the attack.

It was learned last night that a joint funeral of the two cousins was being planned but details have not yet been worked out.

***

31 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

NCNA ACCOUNT OF UK-CHINESE CLASH IN LONDON

Peking NCNA International Service in English 2058 GMT 30 Aug 67 W

(Text] London, 29 August--British imperialism today flagrantly called out large numbers of police, special agents, and ruffians and mounted two attacks on the office of the Chinese charge d'affaires here. Many of the Chinese personnel were wounded during the brutal assaults. This serious bloodshed was engineered by the British Government in a systematic and organic way. It is a new blood debt incurred by British imperialism in its current anti-China campaign.

While cracking down on Chinese compatriots in Hong Kong in defiance of repeated warnings by the Chinese Government and people and in the teeth of strong condemnation by the revolutionary people of the world, British imperialism has recently adopted a series of illegal measures and committed atrocious outrages against the office of the Chinese charge d'affaires and Chinese news and commercial agencies in Britain. Unwarranted restrictions have been imposed since a few days ago on the freedom of movement and exit from Britain of Chinese diplomatic personnel and functionaries. The British authorities have also attempted to cut off the normal diplomatic telecommunications of the Chinese charge d'affaires’ office. Furthermore, they have sent large numbers of police and special agents to cordon off the office and other Chinese agencies day and night and repeatedly made outrageous provocations against Chinese personnel.

In the morning and at noon today on orders from British authorities, more than 100 policemen, with truncheons in hand, brutally beat up Chinese diplomatic personnel and functionaries in front of the sate of the Chinese charge d'affaires office. Many of the Chinese were wounded; three of them seriously in the head. The three comrades--Yu Shen-chin, Li Tien-chang, and Li Hua-tang--have been hospitalized.

This serious incident was deliberately engineered by the British authorities. At 1100, the British policemen and special agents surrounding the Chinese office unwarrantedly questioned, searched, and finally took away by force a British progressive who, with a copy of "Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung"” in hand, appeared before the Chinese office to express support for the just struggle of the Chinese people. While this.was going on, Chinese personnel came out of the office and sternly exposed and denounced this fascist practice of the British police. Immediately a group of ruffians came up to make provocations and assault the Chinese personnel. While they began to beat up the Chinese personnel, the policemen joined them in the assault. Many of the Chinese were wounded outright.

At 1230 the same day, a large number of British policemen and plainclothesmen perpetrated a premeditated and even more serious bloody incident in front of the garage of the Chinese charge d'affaires’ office. At that time a plainclothesman deliberately turned upside down a Chairman Mao badge he wore in an act of provocation before the working personnel of the charge d'affaires’ office.

Our working personnel instantly raised a serious protest and warning and demanded that he admit the error and apologize. Just when our working personnel reasoned with the British policemen and plainclothesmen, scores of other British policemen armed with truncheons charged and brutally assaulted them. Many comrades were beaten to the ground with blood gushing from their faces. Comrade Yu Shen-chih, a driver of the charge d'affaires’ office, suffered fractures on the head and was critically wounded. Li Tien-chang, a staff member of the charge d'affaires? office, was thrown to the ground and brutally beaten by several policemen. He was seriously wounded on the head and in the lower jaw. Two other staff members, Li Hui-tang and Wang Chen-pu, were also assaulted and seriously wounded by the policemen. The other staff members present were badly beaten by the policemen and several suffered injuries.

Under the brutal attacks of the British policemen and plainclothesmen, the Chinese working personnel fought back heroically in self-defense.

During the gap between the two attacks by the British policemen and ruffians, the Chinese working personnel hoisted the five star red flag in front of the gate and raised high the portraits of our great leader Chairman Mao and the red-covered book "Quotations From Chairman Mao." They recited quotations from Chairman Mao in unison, sang revolutionary songs, and told passers-by about the fascist outrages committed by the British policemen.

The Chinese working personnel were high in militancy in the face of the British authorities! fascist outrages. They fully demonstrated the fearless heroism of the red diplomatic fighters who are armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought. Some passers-by who witnessed this incident were deeply moved by the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese diplomatic personnel and some shouted, "Long live Chairman Mao!"

After the incident, many British, Asian, African, and Latin American friends telephoned or wrote to the Chinese charge d’affaires office and the London office of NCNA strongly condemning the fascist atrocities committed by the British authorities and expressing warm support for the heroic struggle of the Chinese working personnel in London.

Immediately after the incident, Shen Ping, Chinese charge d'affaires ad interim in Britain, lodged the most urgent and the strongest protest with the British Foreign Office over the telephone and demanded that the British side: 1) immediately stop ail anti-China outrages and punish the culprits; 2) ensure the safety of the personnel of the Chinese charge d’affaires office and Other Chinese organizations in Britain; 3) ensure immediate proper medical treatment for the Chinese personnel seriously wounded an the incident; and 4) investigate jointly into the condition of the injured persons by a responsible official to be immediately sent by the British Foreign Office and a representative of the Chinese charge d'affaires office. Shen Ping declared that the Chinese side reserves all rights to raise further demands.

Earlier, from 22 to 29 August Shen Ping on several occasions had lodged the strongest protests with the British authorities against the scries of illegal measures and barbarous actions taken by the British Government against the charge d’affaires office and other Chinese organizations in Britain.

***

31 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

UK ANTI-CHINA CAMPAIGN DENOUNCED IN LONDON

Peking NCNA International Service in English 0224 GMT 31 Aug 67 B

[Excerpts] London, 30 August--The British public and Asian, African, and Latin American friends here have strongly denounced the British authorities for their anti-China crimes, Indignant at the fascist outrages committed and the illegal measures adopted by British imperialism against the office of the Chinese charge d'affaires and other offices of the CPR here, they pledged firm support for the dust stand taken by the Chinese Government and the righteous struggle waged by Chinese personnel in Britain.

On the afternoon of 27 August scores of British, Asian, African, and Latin American progressives appeared before the office of the Chinese charge d'affaires here in defiance of the presence of large numbers of British police and special agents who surrounded the office. These progressive friends, with copies of "Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung" in hand, read loudly in unison one quotation after another and shouted passionately: "Down with British imperialism!” "Down with U.S, imperialism!" "Down with Soviet modern revisionism!" and "Long live Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the great leader of the people of the world! A long, long life to him!" Shen Ping, Chinese charge d'affaires ad interim, and other comrades of the office, came out and joined the foreign friends in reading quotations from Chairman Mao and shouting "Long live Chairman Mao! A long, long life to him!” The British police and special agents were stunned by all this. They were at a loss to know what to do. Then the foreign friends held a conversation inside the office with the Chinese comrades, As the foreign friends were entering the office, a reporter of a reactionary bourgeois paper tried to mingle with them and sneak into the office, but he was singled out and rebuffed. A young foreign friend indignantly called him an enemy of the Chinese and British people, The reporter, ashamed and stung, stammered: "you, you dare to side with the Chinese!" The young friend contemptuously retorted: "We do want to side with the Chinese people! With the Chinese people in Hong Kong, with all the 700 million Chinese people!"

After the conversation, the foreign friends marched out of the office defiantly, each with a portrait of the great leader Chairman Mao in hand, to demonstrate before the crowds of police, special agents, and reporters of reactionary bourgeois papers.

This comradeship in arms with the Chinese people has also been manifested in many other places in London, On the same afternoon, when some comrades of the office and an NCNA correspondent appeared in Hyde Park, many people went to greet them in spite of the threats of the police and special agents who shadowed the Chinese comrades.

In another place some Chinese comrades were stopped by a group of friends from Pakistan and other countries who expressed warm support to them and asked for copies of "Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung" and badges with a profile of Chairman Mao.

One also saw this moving scene in Hyde Park; Although the British police authorities recently resorted to fascist violence to suppress and persecute those progressives who sold "Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung" in Hyde Park, more people came to the park to sell this book of quotations, and the number of copies sold increased daily.

Since the 29 August incident in which the British police and ruffians attacked the office of the Chinese charge d'affaires and wounded its working personnel, the charge d'affaires office and the NCNA office in London have received phone calls and letters from many British friends who denounced the fascist outrages committed by the British authorities and expressed resolute support for the heroic struggle of the personnel of the Chinese organizations in Britain.

***

31 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

NEW UK ACTIONS AGAINST HONG KONG JOURNALISTS
Acts Against TA KUNG PAO, NCNA

Peking NCNA International Service in English 1135 GMT 30 Aug 67 B

[Text] Hong Kong--Great indignation among patriotic journalists and other people here has been aroused by the recent kidnaping by the British Hong Kong authorities of a TA KUNG PAO correspondent and the illegal search of staff members of the NCNA Hong Kong branch and TA KUNG PAO. The fascist actions of the British authorities are being strongly condemned, and demands are being made for the immediate release of the -correspondent and an end to all the attacks on patriotic journalists in Hong Kong.

Huang Tse, a TA KUNG PAO reporter, was attacked on the afternoon of 26 August when, along with reporters from other papers, he was covering the demonstration of 1,500 patriotic students in the central district.

Several British Hong Kong policemen suddenly rushed up, surrounded Huang Tse, and beat him up. They banged his head against a wall, causing serious bleeding. Some British soldiers and policemen then dragged the heavily injured Huang Tse onto a police van and again beat him, He was detained in a police station. The British fascist Hong Kong authorities have now framed up four charges against him--"Making provocative speeches," "Holding illegal gatherings," "Hiding criminal daggers," and "Hitting police officers and policemen."

Earlier, on 22 August, the Hong Kong police forced their way into the TA KUNG PAO office where they physically attacked reporters and junior editors. Then they abducted junior editor Chung Shih-yen and detained him illegally for more than five hours, On the afternoon of 24 August the British Hong Kong policemen arrived at the Hong Kong ranch of NCNA and carried out political provocations, At the gate of the building, three policemen threateningly turned their guns toward the building, a British officer took photographs, and other policemen reviled members of the NCNA branch. As two police vans passed the NCNA branch, a policeman on one of the vans shouted insults at our great leader Chairman Mao.

At 1430 on the same day, when a member of the staff of the NCNA branch in Hong Kong arrived at Tsim Sha Tsui railway station in Kowloon from Lohu, he was intercepted and accosted by three armed policemen. He protested again and again, making it clear that he was on the staff of the NCNA Hong Kong branch, but the British Hong Kong policemen forcibly and illegally searched him. One hour or so later the same thing happened when another member of the NCNA branch office arrived at the same place.

Two workers of TA KUNG PAO were illegally searched in the street early on the morning of 25 August when they were on their way to deliver manuscripts, They were then abducted and taken to Wanchai police station, It was only after TA KUNG PAO urged repeated protests that the British Hong Kong authorities released them, at about 1100 the same day.

The TA KUNG PAO committee for struggle against British persecution in Hong Kong issued a statement on 27 August vehemently protesting against the fascist outrages of the British Hong Kong authorities, The statement warned the British Hong Kong authorities that they must immediately release Huang Tse, apologize to him, and compensate him, and that they must immediately stop their persecution of patriotic Chinese journalists,

An editorial in the Hong Kong WEN WEI PAO on 27 August strongly condemned the fascist outrages of the British Hong Kong authorities,

The NCNA Hong Kong branch issued a statement describing the repeated political provocations of the British Hong Kong authorities against the NCNA Hong Kong branch and members of its staff as having an extremely serious import, It demanded an immediate end to these provocations and a guarantee against their recurrence; otherwise, the British Hong Kong authorities would bear full responsibility for all consequences,

Patriotic students and workers have written letters to the newspapers strongly protesting against the harassment and persecution of patriotic journalists. These letters express determination to support the patriotic newspapers and to join the journalists in the common struggle against British imperialism and its fascist violence until final victory.

***

31 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

Trial of Press Representatives

Peking NCNA International Service in English 1319 GMT 30 Aug 67 W

[Text] Hong Kong--The authorities here continue to persecute patriotic journalistic institutions in Hong Kong and illegally try and sentence them. This is being done despite the Chinese Foreign Ministry's 20 August warning that the British authorities must immediately stop their persecution of the patriotic Chinese press in Hong Kong.

On 29 August, the British fascist authorities conducted an illegal trial of Hu Ti-chou, chairman of the board of directors of the AFTERNOON NEWS and concurrently director of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS; Li Shao-hsiung, publisher of the HONG KONG COMMERCIAL DAILY and chairman of the board of directors of the Nam Cheung Printing Company Ltd.; and Chai Nuan-hui, the company's manager. Each of them was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, and the AFTERNOON NEWS was ordered to suspend publication for six months. The AFTERNOON NEWS and the Nam Cheung Printing Company Ltd. were each fined 12,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Determined to persecute these patriotic institutions and journalists, the Hong Kong authorities have thrown together a pack of "crimes" with which to frame them.

In the past few days alone they have raised the total number of accusations from 30 to 99. It is believed that the British authorities will conduct their illegal trial of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS tomorrow.

Ina the nine days of their so-called trial, Hu Ti-chou, Li Shao-hsiung, Chai Luan-hui [sic] and other patriots showed fully their unflinching spirit in the face of the enemy in the court.

The patriotic journalists wrathfully exposed the political persecution of the patriotic journalistic institutions by the fascist authorities, When the so-called judge announced the illegal sentence these stanch Chinese patriots shouted their great contempt and protested against the illegal trial and sentence by the fascist authorities.

On the same day, reporter Shen Chi-lin of the HONG KONG SHANG PAO (HONG KONG COMMERCIAL DAILY) was illegally arrested on the spot by the authorities on the totally absurd pretext of "contempt of court."

The frantic fascist persecution of the patriotic Chinese press aroused great indignation among the patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong, who sent in a steady stream of letters. to the press vehemently condemning the fascist outrages. The letters pointed out that "the patriotic Chinese journalists, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, fear nothing--neither heaven nor hell, neither God nor the devil, and still less the puny British imperialists in Hong Kong. If these fascist authorities are bent on continuing their savage suppression of our patriotic compatriots, they are only inviting their own destruction, like a moth flying into a flame."

***

31 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

Joint Press Statements

Peking NCNA International Service in English 1950 GMT 30 Aug 67 W

[Text] Hong Kong--The committee of Hong Kong-Kowloon compatriots of all circles for struggle against persecution by the Hong Kong British authorities and 14 patriotic journalistic establishments in Hong Kong issued statements yesterday strongly condemning the Hong Kong British fascist authorities for their new persecution of Chinese patriotic journalism.

Disregarding the just warning issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on 20 August, the statement said, the Hong Kong British fascist authorities on 29 August illegally tried and sentenced THE AFTERNOON NEWS, the Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd., and patriotic journalists Hu Ti-chou, Li Shao-hsiung, and Chai Nuan-hui. The statements justly declared the illegal sentences null and void.

The statement of the committee of Hong Kong-Kowloon compatriots of all circles for struggle against persecution by the Hong Kong British authorities said: "This brutal and unwarranted 'sentence! has stripped the mask of so-called 'freedom of the press! off the Hong Kong British authorities and proved to the world that the rule exercised by British imperialism over Hong Kong is an out-and-out fascist one." The statement strongly protested against the "trial" and "sentences," and justly declared that "all the illegal sentences by the Hong Kong British fascist authorities against patriotic Chinese papers and journalists are absurd and ineffective."

The joint statement of 14 patriotic journalistic establishments in Hong Kong noted that the vicious persecution carried out by the Hong Kong British fascist authorities against patriotic Chinese newspapers and journalists constituted a serious provocation against patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong and the 700 million Chinese people. "We hereby lodge the strongest protest and we will strike back resolutely," the joint statement declared.

The joint statement said that the British authorities in Hong Kong could not intimidate patriotic newspapers and journalists by its vicious action, which would only arouse still greater hatred and more resolute resistance against the British imperialists. Warning the Hong Kong British authorities, the statement declared: "The destiny of Hong Kong is decided by us. We remember in mind all the debts, both old and new, you owe. We will never forgive you."

The statement was issued by the struggle against persecution committees of WEN WEI PAO, TA KUNG PAO, HSIN WAN PAO, HONG KONG COMMERCIAL DAILY, CHING PO, CHEN WU PAO, HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, THE AFTERNOON NEWS, TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS, ECONOMIC REPORTER, CHAU MUT PAO, the Nam Cheung Printing Co. Ltd., the Yau Lee Printing Co. Ltd. and the Hong Kong Press Enterprise Ltd.

The struggle committees of the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, THE AFTERNOON NEWS and TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS issued a joint statement on 29 August which said that the great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: "Ours is a righteous cause. A righteous cause is invulnerable to any enemy." The utterly rotten British imperialism ridiculously overreached itself when it attempted to muffle the voice of justice and truth, to forbid Chinese to be patriotic, to forbid the struggle against British violence, and to prevent the propagation of Mao Tse-tung's thought.

“We stand closely with our 700 million brothers and sisters. The great leader Chairman Mao backs us up. You tiny British imperialists in Hong Kong can not at all rival the great Chinese people. If you persist in the present course, you are inviting your own destruction,” the statement said.

***

31 Aug 1967 [FBIS]

FURTHER PROTESTS AGAINST UK ACTS IN HONG KONG
Hong Kong NCNA Director

Peking NCNA International Service in English 2008 GMT 31 Aug 67 B

[Text] Hong Kong--Liang Wei-lin, director of the Hong Kong branch of NCNA, made a statement yesterday regarding the Hong Kong British authorities! illegal trial and sentence of the AFTERNOON NEWS, the Nam Cheung Printing Company Ltd., and patriotic Chinese journalists Hu Ti-chou, Li Shao-hsiung, and Chai Nuan-hui, and their persecution of other patriotic Chinese journalists. He stated that the British authorities! vicious persecution of the patriotic Chinese papers and journalists represented a grave provocation against the Chinese Government and the 700 million Chinese people and showed that the British authorities were determined to be hostile to the very end toward the patriotic Chinese in Hong Kong-Kowloon and the great Chinese people.

He declared: "In all seriousness we warn the Hong Kong British authorities that the Chinese people are not to be trifled with. The Chinese Government means what it says. The Chinese Government has already clearly expressed its stand and attitude concerning your mad persecution of the patriotic papers and our patriotic compatriots in Hong Kong." "You must take effective action in accordance with demands put forward by the Chinese Foreign Ministry in its 20 August protest note, immediately stop the persecution of patriotic Chinese papers, declare innocent and release all illegally kidnaped patriotic journalists, and cancel all the unjustified sentences and accusations. If you continue your vicious persecution of our patriotic papers and patriotic compatriots, disregarding our government's warning, you must be held or fully responsible for all the serious consequences arising therefrom."

Liang Wei-lin said: "Our great leader Chairman Mao has taught us: This army has an indomitable spirit and is determined to vanquish all enemies and never to yield. No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long as a single man remains he will fight on. The Hong Kong fascist British authorities are making wild attempts by means of their persecution to strangle our patriotic newspapers! just voice against British violence and to block our propagation of the brilliant thought of Mao Tse-tung. This is nothing but an idiot's fancy. It can never be achieved, The patriotic compatriots and journalists in Hong Kong who are armed with the great thought of Mao Tse-tung can never be overwhelmed by violence."

Liang Wei-lin went on to say: "In the past several days the patriotic Chinese journalists who were illegally put on trial took a firm and staunch position in the Hong Kong British court, displaying dauntless heroism. While three patriotic papers were forced to suspend publication by the Hong Kong fascist British authorities, countless tabloids mushroomed. Throughout Hong Kong and Kowloon. They pierced the heart of the Hong Kong British authorities like thousands of sharp daggers. The Hong Kong authorities! persecution of our patriotic compatriots will only arouse still further our compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon to protest and thus hasten the doom of the reactionary rule of the Hong Kong British fascist authorities."

Liang Wei-lin declared that Hong Kong is a territory of China. It must all be returned to the motherland. The Chinese compatriots in Hong Kong have every right to love their motherland and their great leader to publicize the illustrious thought of Mao Tse-tung. This right permits no encroachment. No matter now madly the British authorities in Hong Kong persecute Chinese patriotic newspapers and journalists, we will definitely hold still higher the great red banner of the invincible thought cf Mao Tse-tung, struggle more resolutely, publicize and defend the great thought of Mac Tse-tung even better, and support the struggle of the compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon against British imperialist violence until final victory, Liang Wei-lin stated.

Small Tabloids Mushroom

Peking NCNA International Service in English 1950 GMT 31 Aug 67 B

[Excerpts] Hong Kong Patriotic Chinese residents have recently put out more than 230 different tabloids attacking British persecution after the British imperialists in Hong Kong suspended the HONG KONG EVENING NEWS, the AFTERNOON NEWS, and the TIN FUNG DAILY NEWS. The British imperialists have viciously persecuted patriotic Chinese press institutions because they fear the dissemination of Mao Tse-tung's thought and the publishing of the developing struggle against British violence waged by the Chinese patriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

However, the enemy’s oppression stirred up a “people’s war” on the journalistic front. The heroic Chinese have conducted a tit for tat struggle by means of tabloids. These tabloids for struggling against British violence which Chinese patriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon are putting out have a clear-cut stand and a sharp, pungent style.

Our great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: "The masses have boundless creative power. These tabloids fully reflect the wisdom of the masses and have become a powerful weapon in the struggle against the British imperialists. According to the needs of the struggle, the newspapers reveal the truth about the fascist Hong Kong British authorities, expose their intrigues and plots, and refute the nonsense printed in the reactionary newspapers.

These newspapers give prominence to publicizing Mao Tse-tung's thought. They consider the defence of Mao Tse-tung's thought and publicizing the living study and application is thought in the course of struggle their most proud and glorious task. The papers have been warmly welcomed and supported by the masses of patriotic Chinese residents. At present Hong Kong is seeing a big boom in tabloids which is frightening the fascist British authorities to death.

***

The Straits Times, 31 August 1967, Pages 1&24

Britain accuses Peking
'DELIBERATE BID TO PROVOKE VIOLENCE'

LONDON, Wednesday - BRITAIN last night accused the Chinese diplomatic mission here of deliberately attempting to provoke violence. At the end of a day of clashes between Chinese diplomats and police, the Foreign Office said:

“The deplorable incidents appear to be a deliberate attempt by the mission to provoke violence in order to justify the action which the Chinese have taken against the British mission in Peking.”

Three policemen and eight Chinese were injured. (See Page 3).

Officials here said that the British Government took an extremely serious view of the Chinese diplomats’ behaviour.

- 'Deliberate' -

They had flagrantly disregarded all the norms of diplomatic behaviour and made deliberate attacks on British subjects, including the police. But despite yesterday's clashes, the British Government would continue to maintain diplomatic links with Peking, the officials said.

[THE BATTLE IN PICTURES: See page 3]

The mass-circulation Daily Mirror headlined a photograph of baton-wielding Chinese attacking a policeman: “East meets West in the battle of Devonshire Close (home of the legation).”

The Dally Telegraph showed a picture of one of its photographers with blood streaming down his face. He was taken to hospital for stitches to a head wound but was later released.

CHINA today protested against attacks on her mission and retaliated by confining British officials and their families to their residences in Peking.

Peking Radio reported that Vice-Foreign Minister Lo Kuei-Po made the protest to Mr. Donald Hopson, Britain's Charge d'Affaires in the Chinese capital, after receiving reports of violence around the Chinese office in London.

- 'Stay at home order to diplomats' -

In the “most urgent, most serious and strongest protest”, he charged that the British Government had Sea police and “ruffians” to beat up Chinese diplomats.

At the same time he announced his Government’s decision to confine members of the British mission to their office building — gutted by fire during demonstrations eight days ago—and to their flats in the nearby compound used by diplomats of several countries. “If they want to go anywhere outside this small area they must give 48 hours notice.’ Mr. Lo said.

He also said that none of the British personnel would be permitted to leave China without special permission from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. All exit permits already issued to Britons were cancelled. — Reuter.

***

The Straits Times, 31 August 1967, Page 24

Police open fire on mob in Kowloon

HONG KONG, Wed. - Police opened fire on rioters in the overcrowded district of Shamshuipo, in Kowloon, tonight as mob violence continued for the second straight day.

At least two people were reported injured when police fired three pistol shots at a mob who tried to set fire to a bus. A Government spokesman said a crowd of some 1,000 later gathered in the area and police fired wooden projectiles (non-lethal wooden bullets) to disperse them.

The two people reportedly injured were arrested and taken to hospital for treatment.

The trouble followed the overnight anti-British demonstration in the Tung Tau resettlement area fear Kaitak airport when a man was killed by police gunfire. — Reuter.

[1967 riots paper clippings] 21-31 Aug 1967 (English)

BOMB OUTRAGE IN N. POINTBastardly Act By CommunistsTWO CHILDREN KILLED

'Murderous And Cowardly'

Reuter Man Still Under House Arrest

Ultimatum To Lift Ban On Newspaper

POLICE REMOVE EXPLOSIVES FROM BUILDING SITES

BORDER INCIDENTS AS SEEN BY H.K. CHINESE NEWSPAPERS

UK, MAOISTS COOPERATE TO SUPPRESS HONG KONG

HONG KONG PROTESTS UK CEASE-PUBLICATION ORDERCPR Ultimatum

NCNA Protest

Workers’ Students’ Protest

Journalists' Protest

PEOPLE'S DAILY: HONG KONG IS CHINESE TERRITORY

COMMENTATOR SCORES UK HONG KONG POLICY

Bomb Blast Damages Newspaper’s Van

Maudling On H.K.’s Importance

REWARD OFFERED FOR ARREST OF KILLERS

U.K. Will Not Accept Peking ProtestDEMAND TO LIFT ‘BAN’ ON NEWSPAPERS

Explosives Removed To Govt Stores

Falsity Of Leftist PropagandaTEACHERS TOLD TO WARN PUPILS

BOMB VICTIMSPersonal Condolences Offered By Mr Gass

Police Question Two Employees After Bomb

Red Leader Denies Responsibility‘BOMBINGS NOT WORK OR STRUGGLE COMMITTEES’

Member Of ‘Struggle Committee’ Off To Japan

UK CLOSING OF PAPERS IN HONG KONG PROTESTEDPeking Journalists Demonstrate

HUNG WEIPING INVADE, SACK BRITISH LEGATION

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT UK LEGATION IN PEKINGRed Guards, Masses Demonstrate

The Straits Times, 23 August 1967, Page 1

Peking mobs storm British envoy's home

MORE BOMBS FOUND AND DETONATED

Tributes Paid To Two Young Bomb VictimsGOVT CONSIDERING DEATH PENALTY FOR BOMB CRIMES

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT UK LEGATION IN PEKINGRed Guards, Masses Demonstrate

‘ADMISSION OF DEFEAT BY LEFTISTS’

FUNERAL OF YOUNG BOMB VICTIMSTight Police Security

Pupils Write For Illegal Papers

RAIDS ON STORES IN YUEN LONG

DEATH PENALTY FOR BOMBERS?

Victory For Mao's Thought

HOW BRITAIN OCCUPIED CHINA'S HONG KONG

BRITISH DIPLOMAT IN PEKING MAILS PROTESTBy KENNETH D. CAMPBELL

24 August 1967OP-ED: BRITISH LEARN ABOUT CHINESE RECOGNITION

‘Uncivilised act': Stern protest to Mao's Man - then Wilson and Brown Hurry Back to London

Britain hits back

Brutal Attack On Radio EmployeesREWARD OF $100,000 OFFERED BY STATION

FEWER BOMBS

MORE INCIDENTS AT BORDERRoof Of Immigration Office Set AlightMACHINE-GUN BURSTS

EXPLOSIVE THEFTSBig Reward Offered For Information

Police Raid On Left-Wing Union Described

RAID ON WAH FUNG: SIX ACQUITTED

THREE SEPARATE TRIALSFive Newspaper Executives Face 99 Charges

Twenty Months For Attacking Bus Office

Woman Seen Burning Posters

Anti-British Slogans Shouted In Court

BOY HAD 2,890 INFLAMMATORY POSTERS

FILM EXTRA JAILED THREE YEARS

Hotel Waiters Remanded

INQUESTMan Appeared Normal, Officer Says

Youths Planted False Bomb

Belligerence Toward Diplomats

BRITISH REPRESSION OF CPR NEWSMEN FLAYED

Burned out envoy is back in business.

POLICE HURT IN BOMB BLASTMissiles Hurled In Western DistrictSIXTY DETAINED

Boys Stay Out Of Trouble

COLD-BLOODED MURDER CONDEMNEDResidents Mourn Mr Lam Bun

EXPLOSIVES NOT YET FOUND

Information On Killers Sought

Posters Vow Revenge

Security In Colony Not Threatened

EX-NEWSPAPER DIRECTORS TESTIFY‘Severed Connections When Paper Turned Left’THREE ON SEDITION CHARGES

MAN DIED IN CELLSUnanimous Verdict Of Accidental Death

No Case To Answer On Two Charges

Set Fire To Bus: Youth Jailed

TWELVE SENT TO PRISON

Two Watchmen Had Gelignite In Hut

WAH FUNG MANAGER GOES ON TRIAL

The Straits Times, 26 August 1967, Page 1

Hong Kong border blockade is off

Reds storm HK bridge

Comedian dies of terrorist burns

Loudspeaker warning

BOMB OUTRAGE IN N. POINT
Bastardly Act By Communists
TWO CHILDREN KILLED

HONG KONG PROTESTS UK CEASE-PUBLICATION ORDER
CPR Ultimatum

U.K. Will Not Accept Peking Protest
DEMAND TO LIFT ‘BAN’ ON NEWSPAPERS

Falsity Of Leftist Propaganda
TEACHERS TOLD TO WARN PUPILS

BOMB VICTIMS
Personal Condolences Offered By Mr Gass

Red Leader Denies Responsibility
‘BOMBINGS NOT WORK OR STRUGGLE COMMITTEES’

UK CLOSING OF PAPERS IN HONG KONG PROTESTED
Peking Journalists Demonstrate

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT UK LEGATION IN PEKING
Red Guards, Masses Demonstrate

Tributes Paid To Two Young Bomb Victims
GOVT CONSIDERING DEATH PENALTY FOR BOMB CRIMES

VIOLENCE ERUPTS AT UK LEGATION IN PEKING
Red Guards, Masses Demonstrate

FUNERAL OF YOUNG BOMB VICTIMS
Tight Police Security

BRITISH DIPLOMAT IN PEKING MAILS PROTEST
By KENNETH D. CAMPBELL

24 August 1967
OP-ED: BRITISH LEARN ABOUT CHINESE RECOGNITION

Brutal Attack On Radio Employees
REWARD OF $100,000 OFFERED BY STATION

MORE INCIDENTS AT BORDER
Roof Of Immigration Office Set Alight
MACHINE-GUN BURSTS

EXPLOSIVE THEFTS
Big Reward Offered For Information

THREE SEPARATE TRIALS
Five Newspaper Executives Face 99 Charges

INQUEST
Man Appeared Normal, Officer Says

POLICE HURT IN BOMB BLAST
Missiles Hurled In Western District
SIXTY DETAINED

COLD-BLOODED MURDER CONDEMNED
Residents Mourn Mr Lam Bun

EX-NEWSPAPER DIRECTORS TESTIFY
‘Severed Connections When Paper Turned Left’
THREE ON SEDITION CHARGES

MAN DIED IN CELLS
Unanimous Verdict Of Accidental Death

DEMONSTRATION IN CENTRAL
Police disperse large crowd

Posters In Canton Condemn H.K. Reds
‘TROUBLE-MAKERS NOT SUPPORTERS OF MAO’

Extracts From The Chinese Press
BOMB KILLING OF INNOCENT CHILDREN CONDEMNED

ARMY EXPERT KILLED
Blown Off Cliff By Blast From Red Booby-Trap
REWARDS PROPOSAL

SUSPENDED NEWSPAPER ‘PATRIOTIC TO CHINA’
Statements By Accused In Sedition Trial

Threat to anti-Reds
UNDERGROUND PAMPHLET SAYS THEY WILL BE ELIMINATED LIKE SLAIN RADIO MAN
Six listed for death

DISTURBANCE IN KOWLOON
Man Shot Dead After Bomb Attacks On Police
CROWDS PAINT SLOGANS

COMPANY EXECUTIVES JAILED FOR SEDITION
Six-Month Suppression Order Against Newspaper

BOMBS THROWN AT POLICE
Suspect Shot Following Demonstration
KOWLOON INCIDENT

MR H. O. LUK RETURNING TO H.K.
Taipei, Aug. 30.

NEW UK ACTIONS AGAINST HONG KONG JOURNALISTS
Acts Against TA KUNG PAO, NCNA

FURTHER PROTESTS AGAINST UK ACTS IN HONG KONG
Hong Kong NCNA Director

Britain accuses Peking
'DELIBERATE BID TO PROVOKE VIOLENCE'