THE HONGKONG DAILY
PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE OTE.
1972.
THE
MACAO AFFRAY for, so thinking, the principal of which his possessed assailants going so far we
FULL STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNOR OF MACAO.
VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE RIOTS.
SALIH
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From
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doubt and they have weighty reasons to throw him into the harbour, one of is that on the morning of the 28th May to lay his hands on the officer's throat. Portuguese citizen, named Bore, insaries of the Macau Labour Another Associations went over to Taipa and August Beca, who was also overtaken by Coloane Islands, in order to try and get the crowd, was assaulted and thrown over the support of the traders and workmen the wharf, on which however, he succeed of these islands for a general strike, ed in holding hmself suspended. which was to take place in the afternoon the maddened crowd, broke out soins first of the same day; thus showing most shots, killing at once one of the African clearly that the idea of a rebellion did soldiers of the small patrolling force not canate from the indignation of the The great mass of the assailants, then It was then that the The following ranslation of an official, section of the population of Macao, surely triwd on account of the African soldier's threw itself definitely forward to lover dispatel by His Excellency the Governor guided by criminal instigators, thought purposed attitude, nor from the refusal whelm the force
that it could subvert the life of a civilized on the part of the "Authorities, but that forec opened fire, not only in the ful- på Mieno to the Capton Authorities bus country, to superpose the Authorities, to this referred to a seditious movement, filment of the very duties of the military
ta forniaky absurd requests of them and to previously thought out, and for which the ass, but also in the The kindly communicated to
Authorities; in see, with the African soldier merely slange for its own salvation.
Large, was, tho
unfortunately, "the percent- doogiate pblication:
About 9.30 p.m. that is to say, after age of the dead. This fact, as very ably The Iron-iation of the despatch of the population, affect those who, by law three hours of seeing the uselessness of narrated by the South China Morning
SIH, "la acknowledging the receipt of dossier over the rest of the peaceful used as a favourable protext, Coman seiner for Foreign Affairs of thed by brture are entitled to be respected, his pecific efforts, and justly, fearing for Post of Hongkong and which these, who to auskult, to kill, io perturb completely the safety of the Police Station, Captain are experts in military affairs know very Province of Koung Tung, dad the the fe of a country in such a despicable, Cabago telephoned asking that an infan- well is a peculiar fact, which only occurs Máy hich has been forwarded by your goouself, I beg to make the followiniul and violent manner; that is what try force he sent for the protection of the when the fire is at a very close range. that section of the population did on the ai Station Indeed, to protect the This, in itself, shows the truth that the ing reply
Station there was only a small squad of crowd was falling with its weight upon I see Trom the despatch of the Commis 28th and 20th of May last.
Although this refers to an event of the civil Police and a piques of four African the military force which it was surround signer of Foreign Affairs that a complete ly erroneous count of the events which internal life of Macao, moved, however, by soldiers who every night petrol that seeing.
were given to ceasu bave taken place in Sacao ang are re-a partiality of sentiments on the part of tien of the Praya, The infantry force. The firing tasted only an instans, for ferred the said despatch has reached this Government towards the Chinese made up of a platoon of 40 men, under mardinte orders the Caulon Goveraniunt, That informa Authorities, a heartiness which only the command of a sub-lieutenand left fire The crowd ran away in a disorderly for days ago I personally had the plea- San Francisco barracks for the Chip manner. As one of the foreign journals. Station; and on passing along the calls attention to, there were no pursuïts, sure to reaffirm, I am cow going to relate da Ribeiro Street it was, stoned and there was.pu chasing after the mutinecra who during such a long time had pro- this svente of the 28th and 20th May last.
veked the force and had insalted it. The its they took ples, and are known to the whole population of this Colony, such as they have merited reference, beaghan 14y an approximate and incomplete form by off their bravery, assaulted the of the most specting foreign Chine
Then the soldiers and the papers which declared that they had re- Portuguese police arrested a Few Chineseived their information from citizens who and took then to the Police Station and arrived from Mato, and even from Whin the Chinese went to the aid st-members of the Labour Unious of this there to give some friendly advice, tion later on to ask that those who harkeity. lice arrested be set free, the soldiers The Canton Groveria ent must prize, sad the Portuguese police fired on th
as it cannot be otherwise, the indisputable indiscriminately, kiling of them
The the principle this the estimate authority and eundig were than ie
er uither be subverted or insulted: following day the Chining, Community assendied in govt indignation nad went that no one ay darsgard the legitimate the hits of otages and the tranquility of the guilty be punished and the intent beeful inhabitants, the Canton Govern men will surely be the first to recognize that the Macao Authorities have proceed e with a great wish for peacefulness and with a great spirit for sacrifier.
tiou sablie
On the 28th instant, at about 99 jam... Portuguese soldiers of Macne aburd some Chise women, and the Chilean who were nearby advised them and hin- dered them from so doing The Porta
hodiers, however, wishing,
to the Polier, Station to ask that
-set-fro
The Sathon, whe had ianded from the Portagner warship again fired on the crowd, killing en dit occasion, more than ten persons and, wojunding about c budd. The courses were cast into the
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I had to state the following: li is not exner that the Soldiers had exäct that the Soliers, show off their bravery for any other purpose, hd assaulted the Chinese; it is not exact that the solders fing arrested Chinese, it is not exned this the Soldiers and the Palien fired iniseriately on the Chinese it not exam thing any. Sailors had landed from the Warship and frol: it is not exact that mares were thrown into the
abused son brows
· Seri.
What took place in this city on the
it
The dead were not thrown into the man," two or three corpses appeared in the water, it was surely because they tell there when they were hit or when they were hustled by the crowd in its flight.
Fustend of their being cast into the men, they were calfreted from the water. All the corpses ward, piously collected and their obits and wonads arere verified by the Decters.
spe shots were fired at it from the win
A few persons of undisputable respert-force did not justly break ranks; it was dows and roofs of some of the houses. ability, such as Mr. Adriano Trigo, the under the orders, of its officers who did Engineer Director of the Public Works, not permit it to fire, not even cue more There was anot any word af ro- fr. Cesar de Almeda, the Attorney hot. General, and Captain Walter de Lina, venge. When the force ft its pince, the Chief Staff Officer, the latter had was only to succour the wounded and were all hit by stones which had leven
collert the dend. thrown. Then, three soldiers fired their arms in the air. By order of the Officer, they went along in an orderly way with out further reply to this aggression,
Then followed the king efforts of 15 hours in which all the patience, all the resigna. on, all the unsurpassable and the almost incomprehensible spirit of acri live on the part of the officers and soldiers Lieutenait Rogerio Ferreira, the acting were put to the supreme trial. Commander of the Infantry Company to which the platoon lelonger appeared there, In one of the streets of this city, on as he had called to lend his efforts and the thalay in the fame, there was his prestige and authority, or the bou he is pue of the officers who had norely a personal incident between an diers, African sokher and a group of people of performed the greatest services during Chinese race. According to enquiries and the Great War, he being honoured with to the account most unfavorable to the wedals from Portugal and From foreign rican sablier, he stopping by the door nations. He came to preserve disciplin- for prostitute's house, addressed her audary action, advising the soldiers to gave a push; but according to the account remay calm, forcing them to suffer their
and even bustled by the crowd. most favourable to the soldier, he simply long trial of being offended, provoked Fifteen hours of incomparable moral stopped to look at her.
Aman of Chinese race, who was pass-sufferings filter hours of fatigue, ing by with live "others spoke to the fifteen hours without the right to a piece sodir
and regular Portuguese of bread or to a drop of water, because scolded him for his attitude towards the the mutinous crowd, which had been made ilitate; and after a short talk, during up of several thousands, and who were af which it is not proven that the soldier waving before their eyes the flags
They were put into coffins and handed rer to the lienevolent institution, known as the Keng Hu Hospital for burial, the relatives who so washed it accompany ng the funerals
Ax was
The wounded were not collected by the self-styled Red Cross Society which, in his last instance, abandoned the place and did not ferder any aid. previously mentioned, this work was done the very soldiers of the force, with me help, aho Portuguest, and they were the Magicial Doctor taken to the Hospitals, where Government operated on them. They were so ten- Surgeons and derly attended 25 that there are hopes that inest of thin will be completely cored.
There was nu massacre, there was not one case of inhumanity, there was no case of aggression against the peacefu) folks;
28th and 2th May inst was a grave re- 3 bad uttered even at insulting word, this their associations, did not permit the was not in any way a case of envity bellion with the most excessive disregard | group of individuals pursued and assault passers-by to piss, did not let their food Thure of a different origin.
for the Authorities and the law; an it- the soldier in such a way that he had to surrection that was calmly borne for eighteen renscentive hours, during which kind of persuasion was tried. time every
go by. They bad barricaded the neigh for ring, streets with tables, rickshaws and hantsoos cressed on the roads They Find
The
was repression of a grave move- night of insurrection, there was the very defence of the public safety and of authority, there was the defence of the ilitary force and, butoro opening
read crime...
go to Hospital where the doctors said he would be unfit to work for 11 days
I positively established their dominion of ves of there was the greatest, the To show that no thought of hostility: also good counsels and requests, as well towards the Chinese people impelled the European passengers for the ro
most surpassible and unimaginable- friendly efforts were availed of, so that African soldier, and also the correctness gular steamer were debarged from pass complacency and, after the fire, there the mutinous population might desist of his behaviour, it is only necessary to ing: the meichasdise which was to be was generosity, there was humanity in shipped, was crdered belt: the postal collecting the dead, in tenderly looking from their criminal purpose, cindervours, say that, he being advised to go in requests and kind words were of no avail, riksha, replied to a European who say mats, which were about to be despatched, after the wounded, and leaving without
pursuit or so that at the out of such a long period in this treated, that he could not do were kept hack and detaiand of eighteen hours, and in the face of these because the African soldiers are de
The food destined for the military was commit of punishment the rest that had It is nevertheless, convenient to refer imminent danger, in which the nilitary barred from using rickshas, and he did seized, a Navy Officer commanding one of
the warships, who was on the way to the in a fact which shows to what extreme force found itself being overwhelmed wish to disobey that order. by the very large crowd, in the face of When this assault took place, it was ship of his command, was tacice attacked length the Authorites went in their wish the greatest insults and the attempted mural that a policeman should appear. by the crowd and was compelled to alight to avoid the shedding of blood,
hi the middle of the night as some murder of an officer belonging to the said He arrested both the African soldier and from the rickshaw which was taking him
on his way, the multitude opposing bis delegates from the Associations had pro- forch, it becuine necessary to make use of of the assailants who was then hold- firearms.
ing on to the assaulted man: The soldier suyance. The steam inches had tried posed to bail the prisoner, with funda The Government of Mecan has been dis-i sunt in custody to the hospital, be to go alongside their wharves and were from the said Lions, the Chief of Police, tinguished during the whole of this trou-se of the contusions that he bad reordered to back pit Among these were afty explaining to their the difficulty of bious period which passed over South reived and the assailant was taken to a fer. Government launches. The Agen so doing before the hour for the opening of the Hongkong line of steamers, wrote of the Court, hochise of the insistence China, by showing much tolerance and the Chip Seng Police Station. the most liberal forbearance in its teent- 14 is to be observed that incidents to the Government to take Argent of the delegates, resolved to ask the ment of the working classes. The Macaosuch as those which have happened be sures for safeguarding the liberty of their Acting Governor, if he thought fit to Authorities possess the most undeniable ween the African soldier, the woman and
All these asts were accompanied with that the tail could be inmediately granted. In the middle of the night the proofs, in authentic documents, of its the assailants are common stresses, shorts, insults, threats and provocations Excentive Council assebled exclusively kinducas and even friendship towards the which occur in every land of every nation hurled at the armed force. population of Chinese race that live in Europe, as well as in America and in
In the meantime to rightly show that for us purpose. The Judge was invited to be present, and such was the wish to this Colony. To confirm the first of these chin, How many similar cases occur in this movement had an organisation and relve this amicably, that it was agreed facts,
the liberal way in which the labour- ing classes have been treated in Micaiton, how many similar cases occur regular preparation, the assailants were
in Maceo with the Chinese soldiers from served with food, Many individuals who to open the Court at once. This, per the 18thing more eloquent than the the neighbouring garrisons who, during wore emblems of a self-entitled corpora haps, is a unique fact in the history of all celebrations
on the first of May Just so many years, have come here to often to tion of the Red Cross, which however, is the Courts The Judgo granted the de which hero in Macao, bad the fullest spend their leisure hours.
nct officially recognised in this Colony, red bait. The Chief of Police, Mr. permission and liberty, wherens, in Can- In Macao when these cases occur with walked about distributing bandages and Cabaco, having been informed of the con- on itself in Hongkong and in every the soldiers of the Garrison, and when some medicines in the event of there being cassion which had been obtained, passed large contro in these regions, there was nothing similar to the celebrations which they are found to be guilty, they are casualties It appears that this contin- this information to the interested punished disciplinarily without the crowd geney had been foreseen by the crowd.parties. As they did not come for the were bold in Maoro.
having to become mutinous and without
Cabrço had spoken about the this information.
the
authorities.
محمد
the
transit;
As a proof of this liberal spirit, there the crowd being disrespectful and arrog Captain 10 nm. of the 29th May as purpose of bailing, be repeatedly renewed is the tolerance with which the Authorial, trying to give orders to the proper fatigue of, and the want of food for the Well, the bail having been granted with ties has been permitting the existence in
force which was at Chip Seng Station. it such an extraordinary demonstration on the Colony of many-labour associations,
Everyone my Test assured that if it be was determined that another infantry the part of the Authority of his wish to which persisted in regulating their,
it being very raamfestly prover, that the status sccording to law, in spite of co-proven that the African soldier with whom platoon should be sent there to relive facilitate everything, was not availed of; Captain Cabaço, on being informed of question of bailing the man under arrest, peated advice which had been tendered curved the scene of the 28th May, is in the one that was already there. then to take that lawinl course."
any way guilty, which it appears, up to
to them that it was simply a sub with the African soldier, was nothing The proof of the tokens of friendship of this moment, is no proved, he will be this order, told it to the crowd explain as well as the quistion about the jurident
nished according to the regulations.
stitution, but the crowd showed it-oppo- more than 4 pretext for the rebellion into the Macno Authorities, fowards the
After the capture of the soldier who,
tion to
to this fact.
which the crowd had resolved to throw Chinese population is to be found in the previously mentined, was sent to Thinking that the arrival of this force itself spontaneous and significant forme of
hospital, and of one of his aggressors who would greatly irritate the feelings of the Without any reluctance, I furnish all gratitude which were shown, a few days as sent to the Chip Behg Police Station, crowd, Captain Cabaça requested that this information to the Government of ago, to the Governer who will sign this, people at once began to demand the foren be not yet despatched. by the highest Chinese Coramuresentative of
of the Chief of that Station that this
However it was absolutely necessity in Canton. Not having been informed by and also in many
aggressor should be set free, The Chief relieve the platoon which was so fatigued exact meccunts, of course, that Govern- assurances of friendship which, till the he Police Station, as was only right, and had been without food. Therefore nient was surprised that the Macao Gov- Jast days were shown towards the prefused to comply with the demand that it was resolved to send on the new platoon erament, with which are maintained friendly! sent Superintendent of Police, a man who was singled, out as a truly great was runde, as he could not legally at free by water, so as not to cause any alarm relations, with whose effective Chief some while crossing the city. Captain Cabaço, of its Authorities had lately bad the most protector of Chinese; a man who had any prisoner without the dared to risk his own life, few weeks proper Authority
of still wishing that the Collin Cabuco cordial antorcos rae, should avail itself of The turbulent crowd increased and the force should not provoke greater excite su violent and uncalled for a measure in a public square of this city, in order to avoid that a trivial street fight Chief of the Police Station informed the ment, asked for its richll when it was against the peaceful, citizens of Chinese
origin
Without any reluctance, therefore, I should be transferred into a tragedy, Central Station; then appeared Captain already on the way.
This could not be done because at that who, with the other Authorities, pat for Cabres, the Chief of Police, the officer ward
every effort during the Seamen's previously mentioned, the same man in moment the launch which was conveying make this long exposition to deny cato strike in order that the Chinese popula-whom all the prople of Macau recognise them could not be signalled to Before gorically the mischievous information that tion should always be provided with the kind and paternal manner of always the approach of the launch alongside the has been tendered to the Canton Govern Tood and geod chrer; a man who for doing his duty. Captain Cabacs began Chin Seng Wharf, Captain Cabaço,ment, and to demonstrats, in a complete eighteen hours, during which that by trying his best to induce the crowd having always the same thought in mind manner, that cannot be refuted at nil, criminal rebellion of the 28th and 29th disperse and to go away. He told ordered Lieutenant Rogerio Ferreira, the that the Macan Authorities have proceed distinguisher officer previously referredded with the greatest. prudence and with May ultimo, lasted, availed himself of them that the prisoner would be set free to by me to go to the wharf to tell the truly pacific and humanitarian foching all the chiorts of his good heart, so that if after the inquiry, nothing were proven launch to remain a little way off, with Nobody could nor will ever expect the not a drop of blood should be shed in against him but that this could not be out finding the force that it was bring Macao Authorities to permit the subver the streets of Macho,
done on the mutineers' demand. To
ing
Lieutenant Rogerio Ferreira sion of the principle of Authority, of Well, a tection of the population of the friendly efforts, to these requests by then went to the wharf in order to obey order and of public safely to take place.
either forgetting or despising the the Chief of Police, the crowd which was the order he had received. It was then
They are legitimately constituted Au- it has continuously received, for growing very large raped most dischet the events were precipitatedman
всет seeing
separated from thorities they repreentwill ng or despising that regard which itpectfully. They threw stones at the crowd.
to have towards the Authorities Station and threatened to deliver an the force, surrounded him, assaulted him, liberal feelings of which it has given the national lawn, forgetting or assault so as to gain their end; and who wreeted his sword from him, bent it and proofs to the whole world, and which has despising, I say, the general interests of knows for what further criminal purposes threw it into a near by well, where it laws that are sovereign, that no will of and it was living in, and which res We this crowd's act spontaneous was found later on. They tore his uni- large or small crowds can destroy
(Continued ex-page E.) of it peace and tranquality, Even this the Macao Authorities must form, koecked off his cap and even tried
ago,
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