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23rd and 25th
September 1971
26th September 1971
2nd October 1971
2nd, 9th, 10th October 1971
5th October 1971
14th October 1971
16th October 1971
The Chinese University Students' Union held discussion meetings in New Asia College on the subject of the 1911 Revolution in China and the overthrow of the Ching Dynasty. About 400 students attended. The discussions were of an academic nature.
200 Hong Kong University students attended a forum on the subject of the "two Chinas" in the Assembly Hall of the University, organized by Social Service Group of the Hong Kong University Students' Union. The general feeling of the forum was in favour of only one China and that this should be Communist China.
Members of the "70's Bi-Weekly" group launched their Anti-Poverty Campaign by leading blind workers to Government House to hand in a petition in connection with their dispute with the Hong Kong Society for the Blind.
The Chinese University Students' Union held a seminar on the subject of "the China Question" at New Asia College attended by 150 students. Speakers spoke on cultural, literary and financial changes in Communist China over the past 22 years. A number of the speakers showed pro-C.P.G. sympathies.
The Hong Kong University Students' Union Current Affairs Committee held a forum in the Assembly Hall of the University on the subject of local government reform. Speakers criticised the structure of the Urban Council as a whole while Mr. R.C. TAMERLANE attributed all Hong Kong's ills to its colonial regime.
The Hong Kong Federation of Students distributed about 10,000 posters, many of which were subse- quently displayed widely in Hong Kong and Kowloon, calling for support for the 21 accused arrested in the July 7th demonstration and urging people to march to Government House on the 17th October 1971 to deliver a petition calling for the charges to be dropped. On the same day 9 student bodies distributed handbills to the public calling on the citizens of Hong Kong to support the blind workers.
The Hong Kong Federation of Students, the "70's Bi-Weekly" group and Chong Kin group held a press conference to publicise the protest march to Government House to be held on the 17th October 1971.
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