Ta Kung Pao May 31, 1967
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Persecution and Anti-Persecution in Hongkong
(Continued from page 6) Representatives of Chinese compa- triots from all circles spoke one after another, demanding of the British au- thorities in Hongkong why the culprits were considered innocent while their victims were accused of being criminal? Was this not jungle law?
"The patriotic Chinese residents armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought cannot be cowed, they are invincible, they de clared, 'We will certainly hold still high- er the great red banner of Mao Tse- tung's thought and carry the struggle against persecution through to the very
end!'
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At an emergency meeting here on the morning of May 21, Chinese compa- triots in Hongkong were urged to fur- ther mobilise themselves and unite as one to carry the struggle against British persecution to final victory. was issued by the committee of Hong- kong-Kowloon compatriots of all circles for struggle against British persecution in Hongkong.
The call
The meeting warned the British au- thorities in Hongkong that they must immediately and unconditionally accept the solemn five-point demand put forth in the statement of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the four demands put forth by the committee of Hongkong-Kowloon compatriots of all circles for struggle against British persecution in Hong- kong.
A message to all Hongkong-Kowloon compatriots was unanimously adopted at the meeting.
Flames of Struggle
Flames of the struggle of our Chinese compatriots in Hongkong against per- secution by the British Hongkong au- thorities continued to spread as about ten thousand people protested at 'Gov- ernor's House' and demonstrated in the downlown districts on May 20.
At 14:00, carrying red-covered copies of 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse- tung" and
wearing Chairman Mao badges, thousands of angry Chinese be- gan to march towards the downtown districts shouting slogans and singing revolutionary songs.
As they swept past the 'Supreme Court', 'Labour Department', 'Amer- ican Cultural Centre'. 'Government Buildings' and 'Education Department', some stopped to plaster these U.S. and British imperialist institutions with big- character posters and paint protest slo- gans on their walls, doors, windows and in the streets. People in the streets, buildings and buses expressed their sup- port with thunderous applause.
The stream of demonstrators moving eastwards kept up till midnight. All the way, they forced aside police vans, and continued to paint slogans on the Bri- tish Hongkong police stations and on other establishments including those of the U.S. and the Chiang Kai-shek gang. When the angry demonstrators spotted the Union Jack flying from the Charter- ed Bank and the Stars and Stipes from the Hongkong Hilton Hotel, they cried out: 'Tear it down'. The U.S.-owned Hotel and the British Bank, notorious blood-suckers of our Chinese brothers, were forced to lower the two bandit flags of imperialism. At this, thunder- ous cheers of 'Long Live Chairman Mao' burst from the crowds.
New Bloody Suppression. The British authorities in Hongkong stared a new bloody suppression of Chi- ree in Hongkong on May 21st. The Eritish Hongkong authorities sent more thun 1,000 police and riot police' to
(May 4-May 22, 1967)
create a new bloody incident in the Chung Wan district, the Sheung Wan district, North Point, and mid-levels dis- trict in the centre of Hongkong city. Many Chinese workers and others were beaten up, and at least 44 people were unreasonably arested. This was done in utter disregard of the May 15 statement of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the strong protests issued by Chinese com- patriots.
Enraged by these fresh atrocities, tens of thousands of Chinese compatriots in Hongkong fought against the enemy on the streets for almost nine hours.
On the morning of May 21st, the Bri- tish authorities sent large numbers of 'riot police' to suppress the tram work- ers who were pasting slogans on trams in the general station at North Point ex- pressing their determination to carry the anti-persecution struggle through to the end, and their love for the great leader Chairman Mao. At 11:15 hours, the 'riot police' launched one assaults after an- other on the tram workers. Using batons and rifle butts, the 'riot police' knocked workers at the head and chest, causing the blood of many to flow.
Acting on Chairman Mao's teaching that 'we will not attack unless we are at- tacked; if we are attacked, we will cer- tainly counter-attack', the tram workers, who have a 60-year anti-imperialist tra- dition, fought back against the fascist thugs with their fists. The 'paper tigers' fled in panic, dropping many of their police clubs and rattan shields.
The Hongkong-Kowloon compatriots, who are studying and applying Chair man Mao's works in a living way in the course of struggle, streamed to the 'governor's house' to lodge a protest yes- terday. The British Hongkong 'Goy. ernor', David Trench, frightened to death, ordered out several hundred arm- ed 'riot police' to block the way to Garden Road that leads to the 'Gov- ernor's House'. Representatives of the Chinese compatriots, with the masses, persevered in the struggle against them for two hours. At around 13:00 hours, a 'correspondent' of the A.B.C. broad- casting company of the U.S. made re- peated provocations against the crowds and kicked people.
At that moment,
the 'riot police' launched a surprise attack on the demonstrators along the main streets in Chung Wan district. They beat everyone in sight. Seven thugs beat and kicked a child. Thugs dragged an elevator operator out of a building and beat him up. A boy carrying a copy of 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse- tung' and his younger sister were beaten up and arrested. In the Sheung Wan dis- trict, thugs broke into a public house to arrest people at random.
At North Point, thugs intercepted mov- ing trams and clubbed any passenger who wore a badge with Chairman Mao's portrait or quotations from Chairman Mao or carried a copy of 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung'. In one tram alone, they illegally arrested nine Chinese nationals.
Traffic was brought to a standstill in these places and all shops were shut. White terror reigned in Hongkong.
Tens of thousands of heroic compa- triots, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, put up blockades on the streets of the Chung Wan and Sheung Wan dis- tricts and, with stones and bottles, car- ried out a tit-for-tat struggle against the British imperialists. Thunderous shouts of 'patriotism is no crime, resistance to violence is justified!', 'down with U.S. imperialism', 'down with British im- perialism!', 'Long live the great patrio- tic solidarity of the Hongkong-Kowloon compatriots!' and 'Long live the people's republic of China!' overwhelmed the
sounds of the firing of wooden projec- tiles and tear gas bombs and the yells from the enemy.
Heroic compatriots who were wounded and hauled off in police vans shouted 'Long live Chairman Mao!'. The enemy could not chain their loyal red hearts toward their great leader Chairman Mao of their strong will to carry the anti- persecution struggle through to the end. The Chinese compatriots are closely watching the British fascist thugs. They consider that, since the British Hongkong authorities have escalated their persecu- tion, the Chinese compatriots will also escalate their struggle.
May 22 Incident
At least two hundred Chinese com- patriots were killed or seriously wound- ed in Hongkong and Kowloon on May 22 as the British authorities sent thou- sands of 'riot police' into the streets to slaughter workers and staff of Chinese organisations in Hongkong and compa- triots of various circles.
Many more suffered light injuries in the new bloody fascist atrocities. Ac- cording to greatly minimised statistics issued by the British authorities in Hong- kong, 363 personnel of Chinese organi- sations in Hongkong and other com- patriots were unreasonably arrested on May 22. Nearly two hundred of them were secretly arrested by British Hong- kong special agents in the small hours.
Defying sacrifices, the Hongkong- Kowloon compatriots who are armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought staged va- liant counter-attacks, displaying heroism of the Chinese nation in their deter- mination to fight the enemy through to the end.
The May 22 bloody incident took place when representatives of the Chinese com- patriots in Hongkong and Kowloon continued of stream to the British Hong- kong 'Governor's House' to protest against the British Hongkong authori ties' killing and wounding of Chinese compatriots.
At 10:30 a.m, when more than 150 re- presentatives of the workers and staff of the publishing, trading and banking circles reached Garden Road leading to the 'Governor's House', four to five hun- dred fully armed British Hongkong 'riot police' led by British police officers wielded batons and other weapons to beat completely unarmed representatives about the head and body. All the representa. tives were seriously wounded and bled on the spot. Scores of them were knock- ed unconscious.
While the fascist thugs were beating them up, the representatives held high copies of red-covered "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung', and sang the songs 'Win Victory' and 'When we die for the people it is a worthy death' com- posed for quotations from Chairman Mao. They shouted anti-imperialist and anti-revisionist slogans. A young repre- sentative showed not the slightest sign of fear while he was beaten up by fifteen fascist thugs. With clenched fists, he shouted 'Long Live Chairman Mao!' until he fell, unconscious.
The dozen and more women represen- tatives of the Hongkong-Kowloon patrio- tic bookstores, which is on the first line of propagating Mao Tse-tung's thought, were all seriously injured. Each of them was set upon by three thugs and beaten up. When they were escorted to the police van. the women representatives lifted up their heads and angrily scorned the fascists.
The British Hongkong thugs also at- tacked patriotic correspondents. They yelled that 'Beat up all Left correspon- dents. Hsu Yun-cheng, a correspondent of the Hongkong 'Economic Reporter'
who was carrying out normal reporting on the spot, was beaten up by thugs. He shouted at the top of his voice: 'Long live Chairman Mao, Long Life to him!' the thugs struck him about the head and knocked him to the ground.
From morning till late at night, Hong- kong was under a reign of white terror. Sun Hung-chi, a clerk at the China Chiao Tung Bank, received several bul- lets in the chest when a group of fascists attacked the bank.
In the meantime, the British Hongkong authorities started illegal closed-doye trials at the Causeway Bay, South Ko loon and North Kowloon "Magistracies"," all of which were heavily guarded.
Group of Chinese workers, students and other residents marched there in protest. Reciting quotations from Chair- man Mao and singing revolutionary songs, they covered these 'magistracies' with big-character posters.
However, the 'riot police' fired two dozen tear gas shells at the bare-handed masses, then charged, hitting about the head, chest and stor old folk, women and childre spared. Some fell to the ground, ly injured.
Refusing to yield, the Chinese arms and more resolutely recited: 'be re- solute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory and shout- ed: 'Long Live Chairman Mao!"
They showed solicitude for one an- other in the teeth of the police attack. Some shielded others with their own bodies when police clubs fell, or rescued the injured. Finally, they withdrew from the scene, singing the song, 'Sailing the Seas Depends on the Man at the Helm'.
Soon after the fascist thugs beat up and arrested over 100 representatives of Chinese residents at Garden Road, a still greater number of people, carrying 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse- tung, wearing Chairman Mao badges, shouting slogans and singing militant songs, marched to 'Governor's House' in protest, breaking through enemy blockades on the way.
The courageous demonstrators were warmly supported by workers, students and residents in the streets. Many fell in with the marchers. Others offered them tea or water. Drivers stopped their cars or buses in the middle of the street to prevent police vans from passing, so as to protect the demonstrators.
At 12:30 in the afternoon, the Hong- kong tram workers held a solidarity work stoppage. At the same time the bus workers in Hongkong and Kowloon staged an one hour strike. At the depot of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, the bus workers lined up before their buses shouting slogans and singing revolution- army songs. The British Hongkong au- thorities sent a large number of police to suppress them. A brave driver then drove a bus straight at the fascist thugs who were thrown into confusion and hurriedly backed away. They fired tear gas bombs and wooden projectiles at the workers. Greatly indignated, the workers armed themselves with stores and bottles. This prevented the fascist thugs from advancing.
Intensifying their suppression, the Bri- tish Hongkong authorities imnosed a curfew from 6 p.m. in Hongkong. Dur- ing the curfew, the British Hongkeng police continued to arrest the Chines compatriots. From roof tons and houses, the Chinese compatriots threw stones and bottles at the thugs who were like per tirers forcing to take shelter as best they could.
At the fascist suppression mounts, so docs the anti-persecution struggle of the Chinese compatriots in Hongkong and Kowloon.
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