HK "Gov't" Workers
Joined Forces
Ready to Rush to Front
Representatives of Chinese workers in Bri- tish organisations in Hongkong held a meet- ing on June 4 evening to celebrate the trium- phant joining of forces of Chinese workers in British organisations in the struggle against British persecution.
Workers addressing the meeting expressed their firm determination to respond to the call of the great motherland to mobilise and organise themselves and be ready at any time to smash any provocation of British imperial-
ism.
The workers belong to the Marine Depart- ment Chinese Employees' Union, Govern- ment, Armed Forces and Hospitals' Chinese Workers' Union, Hongkong Postal Workers' Union and Hongkong Government Water- works' Chinese Employees' Union.
HK Students
Determined to
Respond to Peking's Call
HK Students Struggle Committee issued a statement on June 4 voicing their deter- mination to respond to the call of the mother
land.
The statement declared: 'We students re-
present an army corps of young people who dare to break through any obstacle and storm the enemy, and our army corps is now part of the tremendous and powerful revolutionary forces forged by the patriotic compatriots of all circles. We will determinedly carry out the supreme instruction given by our great leader Chairman Mao: "Be resolute, fear no sacri- fice and surmount every difficulty to win victory".'
The statement called on all students in Hongkong-Kowloon to smash thoroughly the fetters of slavish education imposed upon them by the British imperialism in Hongkong for a century and more.
The patriotic students in Hongkong held a meeting on the same day at which the People's Daily editorial entitled 'Resolutely Repel Bri- tish Imperialist Provocations' was read out. The students said that it represented a prompt programme of action sent by Chairman Mao. They stressed that at the call of the mother- land, they were ready to sacrifice everything and pledged that they would do all in their power to create an iron bastion of all Chinese patriots in Hongkong against which the Bri- tish imperialists would dash themselves to pieces.
The students exposed the British imperial- ists' monstrous crime of carrying out an education policy aimed at turning teenagers and students into their slaves. The British imperialists hate the patriotic schools that actively propagate Mao Tse-tung's thought and, for many year, they have been closing them down or forcing them to move or setting many restrictions upon them in an attempt to kill the patriotic educational system of the
Chinese residents.
The students also related many moving stories about how their fellow students, rela- tives and other people had been carrying out heroic struggles against persecution.
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Editorial Hailed
The speakers enthusiastically hailed the People's Daily editorial entitled 'Resolutely Hit Back at the Provocations of British Im- perialism'. With Chairman Mao to back them up, speakers said, the compatriots in Hongkong would win final victory in their struggle against persecution.
They angrily condemned British imperialism for their barbarous exploitation and oppression of Chinese workers in British Hongkong organisations by arbitrarily beating them up or kicking them, by unreasonably dismissing them and by not allowing them to leave even when they fell ill. Speakers denounced the Bri- tish Hongkong authorities for bloody fascist in- cidents. The Chinese workers in the British Hongkong organisations could no longer to- lerate this. They were determined to join hands with the rest of the Chinese compat- riots to rebel against the British authorities. 'Decrees'
The Chinese compatriots had smashed to smithereens the arrogance of the British of their heroic struggle. The British authori- 'courts' and jails in Hongkong in the course
ties could never attain their goal of sup- pressing the Chinese workers and other Chi- nese compatriots by issuing this or that fascist 'decree' or by making use of the fascist 'Estab-' lishment Regulation', the workers stated.
The workers' representatives also con- demned the British Hongkong authorities for sending armed police to force patriotic Hong- PLA Garrison
Ta Kung Pao June 10, 1967
kong-Kowloon bookshops, banks, department stores, cinemas and other establishments to dis- mantle their display cases of photographs and reading material propagating Mao Tse-tung's thought and exposing the British suppression, and to tear down the big-character posters, slogans and newspapers pasted on the walls. In taking these fascist measures, the British Hongkong authorities showed their deter- mination to continue setting themselves against the Chinese people and the compat riots in Hongkong, the speakers said. Ready for Action on Order
The speakers all expressed their firm deter- mination to carry the struggle through to the end, no matter how the enemy escalated the persecution. They declared that the Chinese workers in the British Hongkong organisa- tions were ready to rush to the front and hit back at the provocations of British imperialism whenever the order came from the Hongkong Struggle Committee.
Addressing the meeting, Yang Kuang, Chairman of the Hongkong Struggle Com- mittee, called on the workers of all trades to be fully prepared and await orders from the Committee at any time and hit back at the British Hongkong authorities' persecution.
The participants in the meeting, in high spirit raised clenched fists and shouted slogans. The meeting ended with the singing of Sail- ing the Seas Depends on the Man at the
Helm.
Anti-persecution
Struggle
on the Border
Demonstrates on
Kwangchow, June 5 (Hsinhua) In Shatowkok, a town just over the border from the territory ruled by the British authorities in Hongkong, the revolutionary people and commanders and fighters of the local garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have, over the past few days, held meetings and demonstrations angrily denouncing the British authorities in Hongkong for their bloody outrages.
Holding up their red-covered copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung', they have shouted slogans pledging strong sup- port to their patriotic fellow countrymen in Hongkong.
Lo Yi-kuang, militia company commander and Representative to the National Militia Conference, spoke with his rifle in his hand. He said that Hongkong belonged to the Chinese people, who would not tolerate Bri- tish imperialism to do evil things at will and to carry out wanton persecution against their compatriots there.
"The blood debt British imperialism owes to the Chinese people must be repaid in blood!' The commander declared,
Another fighter of a unit stationed at Shatowkok stated that the just struggle against British imperialism of the patriotic Chinese in Hongkong and Kowloon was the mighty strug gle for the defence of Mao Tse-tung's thought and the dignity of their motherland.
'We, the People's Liberation Army, give most resolute and vigorous support to their struggle against persecution and undertake to
back them up. We have sharpened our vigi- lance a hundred times, closely followed the progress of events there and are ready at any time to crush the intrigues of British imperial- ism,' he said.
After the condemnatory meeting, the local armymen and people held a demonstration, surging like a great torrent into the street, the other end of which is in the area under the rule of the British Hongkong authorities.
The demonstrators marched to the boundary, where they scattered large numbers of leaflets, bringing tremendous encouragement to the Chinese residents on the other side.
At this point the patriotic Chinese fearlessly broke through the British police cordon and rushed into the street to pick up the leaflets. They stood together with the demonstrators shouting slogans and singing at the tops of their voices the songs based on quotations from Chairman Mao's works. The thunder of the slogans and the sound of singing echoed over the town, shaking the dark domain ruled over by British imperialism.