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organised by the evolutionary Earxist League and Anita CHAN was arrested together with three other members of the League for distributing leaflets without permission from the secretary for Home Affairs. Larlier, the Director of the universities Service Centre had had to ask her to stop using the Centre's facilities (e.g. photo- copyers) for political work including running off Revolutionary Farxist League pamphlets and had banned her New Left ex-fed uard friends from hanging around the Centre, where they were disrupting serious academic work. kiss CHAN was supported in her political activities by jonathan unger, to whom she was by then engaged, and who was living with her at her parents' house. But he is far too fly a character to be caught distributing leaflets and was not, as far as ve knov, present at the may Jay demonstration, on the grounds that "it would have excited the distrust of the workers for a uropean face to be seen among the demonstrators".
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After due legal process, Miss CHAN pleaded guilty to the charge preferred by the Police against her and on 5 september 1975 was bound over for HK,100 for a period of six months. Her parents, who are respectable business people with a vaguely KMT and certainly anti-Communist background (it is paradoxically quite common for our hew Left-inclined students to be the children of pro-2 M 1 parents and educated in K Mi schools), were horrified by their daughter's scrape with the lav. As a result, hiss CHAN did not,,so far as is known, take much part in further Lev Left activities up to the time of her departure from Hong Kong in June 1976. but her key Left friends continued to make a nuisance of themselves. In particular, having failed to stir the young workers with the ending of the recession in 1976, they turned their attention to Chinese affairs and tried to re-create the spirit of the lien in Men incident by demonstrating in Hong Kong for the release of those arrested on 5 April 1976 in Peking and, somewhat ironically, protesting against the removal of TENG Hsiao- pling from high office. Just before Mr Crosland's visit
to Feking in May 1976 they took a petition to the premises of the New China Lews Agency in sharp street, which resulted
in the New China News Agency demanding that we suppress them. Similar demonstrations were made at subsequent intervals,
including after the death of MAO and the fall of the gang of Four, resulting in further "noises" from the CIA about the activities of this group. ihe Revolutionary Marxist League have now announced that they will hold a rally in Victoria Park on 5 April to commemorate the tien An Men incident of last year and vill present another petition at the NCNA premises asking for the "verdict on Tien An Men to be reversed". it so happens that Miss CHA (nov Mrs unger) has returned to Hong Kong for the Easter vac to see her parents, and seems to have fallen in again with these hew Left elements, who have been discussing political action with her at the Universities Service Centre presumably because they cannot do it at her home.
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