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6.6.67.

Statement to be made by

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House of Lords

Since the full and detailed statement made by my hon,

friend the Minister of State last Thursday in another place,

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The House may remember that in my hon. friend's statement

last week she said that one person had been killed and seventy

demonstrators injured. Following the claim by the Peking

National Daily that two hundred people were killed or injured

on one day alone the Hong Kong Government Information Services

issued a public challenge to anyone knowing of any deaths in

the disturbances (other than the one I have already mentioned)

to produce the names and other particulars of those killed.

So far this challenge has not been taken up. One man who had

been claimed by the pro-Communist press to have been killed on

22nd May appeared perfectly fit in court two days later.

This House will, I am sure, wish to be associated with

the tributes which have been paid to the leadership shown by

during this duff will penisdt

the Governor, Sir David

Trench) the great restraint shown by A bih morale I the past may ul. the police and indeed by the whole Hong Kong Administration.

the people of Hong Kong.

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