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UKP658
YBX285
B659 : CORRUPTION 2 HONG KONG:
LAST NIGHT 4.800 POLICEMEN HELD A MEETING TO PROTEST AT COMMISSION INVESTIGATIONS WHICH THEY SAID WERE TOO PROTRACTED AND CAUSED +MENTAL AGONY+.
TODAY THEY MARCHED SIX ABREAST THROUGH HONG KONG'S BUSTLING BUSINESS DISTRICT TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN THE SUZY WONG BARGIRL DISTRICT OF MANCHAI.
A FIVE-MAN DELEGATION HELD ONE-HOUR TALKS WITH COMMISSIONER SLEVIN WHO PROMISED TO SET UP A COMMITTEE OF RANK-AND-FILE POLICEMEN TO LOOK INTO THE ISSUE.
A DELEGATION SPOKESMAN. WILDLY CHEERED BY THE MARCHERS SQUATTING OUTSIDE THE NINE-STOREY HEADQUARTERS. SAID THE PETITION WOULD NOW BE PASSED TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POSSIBILITY EXAMINED OF LEGAL AID FOR OFFICERS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
COMMISSIONER SLEVIN. COMMENTING ON CORRUPTION INVESTIGA-
TIONS YESTERDAY, SAID POLICE MORALE WAS HIGH DESPITE THE TRAUNA OF BEING DISGRACED BY +A HANDFUL OF TRAITORS. + MORE PRM/WK