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22 May:
Radio 22.5.89)
Troops awaiting orders around Peking. Radio 21.5.89)
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Army paper Jiefungjun Bao supports martial law order.
Hong Kong Ming Bao says Zhao Ziyang under house arrest.
Xinhua carries reports on telegrams of support for Li Peng's 19 May speech from leading party and government organs of Shanghai municipality (dated 0200 20.5.89), Shaanxi, Hunan, Hebei, Henan and Fujian Provinces.
Student demonstrations outside provincial people's government building in Canton (Guangdong radio 21.5.89).
PLA troops 'awaiting orders' around Peking (Peking Radio 21.5.89)
Peking residents prevent troops from entering Tiananmen. One million Hong Kong people hold unprecedented demonstration in Hong Kong.
Several thousand students march in Shanghai on hearing rumours that Shanghai was to be put under military control (Shanghai Radio 22.5.89).
Hong Kong Wen Wei Po reports Deng Xiaoping is in Wuhan attending a national conference of military regions. Old marshals Nie Rongzhen and Xu Xiangqian, and Zhang Aiping (former Minister of Defence) said to have called Deng to say situation in Peking should be handled promptly and no force be used.
Hong Kong Ming Bao reports Zhao Ziyang removed from post at Politburo meeting on 19 May and is now under house arrest.
Journalists and intellectuals demonstrate in Tiananmen Square including 400 workers from People's Daily, shouting anti-Li Peng slogans. (Zhongguo Tongxun She, Hong Kong 22.5.89)
Li Peng addresses cadre meeting "on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the State Council."
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