Date
Events in Peking
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13
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Events in Hong Kong
27 May
LI Xiannian and WAN Li support the line taken by LI Peng and YANG Shangkun.
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A delegation of 80 leaves for Peking to take donations and materials to students.
12-hour mass concert at the race course. About 300,000 people attend. $12 million raised.
28 May (Sunday)
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Mass parade by 500,000
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1 million from Chater Garden to Causeway Bay. Many left-wing participants.
30,000 Catholics hold mass prayer & then join the mass rally.
- 10,000 parade in a few New Territories
districts including Shatin, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Tsing, North and Lantau.
29 May
- Erection of the Goddess of
Democracy in Tiananmen Square.
Total of donations for student movement now exceeds $20 million.
30 May
John Shum and LEE Wai-kit of the All HK Alliance travel to Peking to investigate the political situation before deciding what to do with the donation.