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authorities into the dark concentration camp where they have been detained for long period and subjected to shocking maltreatments and tribulations.
First of all, we accuse the Hongkong British authorities of launching political persecution against our relatives.
All our relatives are workers or Chinese from all walks of life who fervently love our motherland and our great leader Chairman Mao. To be patriotic is a sacred right which is inviolable. Yet the Hongkong British authorities have gone so far as to deprive our relatives of their freedom of reading the brilliant writings of our great leader Chairman Mao. We have repeatedly lodged protest against this and we have demanded that the camp authorities should hand over Chairman Mao's writings and 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung' to our relatives. But this has been refused. Further- more, patriotic newspapers, magazines and books are also banned in the camp. European officers and agents inside the concentration camp often deliberately cursed and insulted our great socialist motherland and our great leader Chairman Mao. They frenziedly attack the patriotic workers and our patriotic compatriots. By flagrantly showing hostility towards our great motherland, its 700 million people and the four million Hongkong com- patriots, the Hongkong British authorities have belied also their talks about the Sino-British relationship and easing the Hongkong situation. Their real intention, on the contrary, is to worsen the Sino-British relationship and intensify the tension in Hongkong. All this has fully exposed the reactionary nature of the Hongkong British authorities.
Following our great leader Chairman Mao's instruction: 'We must not show the slightest timidity before a wild beast', our relatives have waged a tit- for-tat struggle against the enemy. Under the most difficult conditions, they persist in studying Mao Tse-tung's thought. Although they are in the dark prisons, they cherish in their hearts their motherland and keep in their mind the whole world. They are immensely confident that we shall win and the Hongkong British authorities will be defeated. In fact, the Hongkong British authorities' plot of political persecution has since long been bankrupt.
The tortures imposed on our relatives mentally and physically by the Hongkong British authorities will stir the blood of anyone who so much as hears about them. What we make public here is only a fraction of these atrocities. But they are enough to lay bare the Hongkong British authorities' fascist nature.
The concentration camp is located at Mt Davis on Victoria Road in the West Point of Hongkong Island. From outside, you may not know that inside it is like a dark hell. The inmates are imprisoned separately in Block B and C in the compound. There are twelve what are called 'sealed rooms' in Block B. Each of the cells, a few feet square, has only a small hole which is closed all the time except when food is brought in, and a noisy ventilation fan which keeps roaring around the clock. For a long period the cells were each lighted day and night by a 100 candle-power lamp. Two patriots are detained in such small cells. There they do not know whether it is day or night, rain or shine. In these 'sealed rooms', our relatives are subjected to the roaring of the fan and the irritating light from the bulb. More air being drawn out than let in, the cells are so suffocating that our relatives have to lie on the floor to get the fresh air filtering through the door gaps.
Under such living conditions deliberately brought about, it is difficult for our relatives to have proper rest and they suffer from insomnia. They said that they were able to withstand all this only because Mao Tse- tung's thought had given them the will to fight. Otherwise it would have only been a matter of days for them to crack under the strain. The