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Fighting was not confined to Canton. Outside the provincial capital, fighting is reported to have been at its worst in the Waiyeung area, where politics were reported to be not the only reason for discontent and workers and farmers there demonstrated against shortages of rice and long hours of work.
The P.L.A. is reported to have made many arrests in Canton and road blocks were set up in rural areas leading to the Hong Kong border.
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C.P.G. loudspeakers at Lo u continued throughout the month to broadcast to Hong Kong travellers crossing the border. Fronouncements on the Hong Kong situation from Peking Radio, the Southern Dail News and the People's Daily being the most com.on subject. The People's Daily editorial for 5th July calling for unity among Hong Kong compatriots was broadcast almost daily. Pelting Radio report on the revolutionar situation in Wuhan was relayed on 28th July and a report from the same source calling for revolution- aries to be loyal to MO and the Cultural Revolution on 30th July. Slogans and posters denouncing Hong Kon Goverment officials and calling for the disaffection of police and other Government Servants continued to appear on all goods wagons entering the Colony but from the middle of the month there was a marked increase in the number of posters that contained exactly the same subject matter, indicating perhaps that workers in C.T. were becoming bored with the necessity to write fresh posters each day.
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