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HONGKONG GOVERNMENT YET TO FACE FINAL RECKONING FOR PERSECUTING CHINESE:
Three hundred representatives from local trade unions in Canton and other parts of Kwangtung Province, held a rally here on February 3 to support the statement issued on February 25 by the Chinese Foreign Ministry denouncing the arrest and deportation of Chinese residents by British authorities in Hongkong.
At the rally the Chairman of the Trade Union Council of Kwangtung Province, Lin Chiang-yun, said, "The British imperialists who seized Hongkong by armed force over a century ago, have been persecuting the Chinese for a long time, for which a final reckoning has not yet been made."
He declared that the workers of Kwangtung resolutely support the Foreign Ministry's statement, and pledged to back the just struggle of Chinese residents in Hongkong.
Vile, Shameless Means
A representative of the Canton Trade Union Council, Huang Teng-ming, pointed out that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Hongkong Government had been constantly deporting Chinese workers' leaders, as well as using every vile and shameless means to persecute Chinese workers and residents. The Foreign Ministry's statement was a vigorous warning to British imperialism to end such savage outrages.
Than a representative of the Chinese refugees stricken by a fire in Tungtou Village of Kowloon, Chang Sheng, who was tyrannically deported by the British Government of Hongkong, described his personal sufferings at their hands.
Trade union leaders Ouyang Shaofeng, Mai Yao-chuan and Lu Cheng-chih, who were deported from Hongkong, also denounced the outrageous and unreasonable actions of the British Government of Hongkong.
Finally, Liu Tien-hsing of the Trade Union Council of Kwangtung Province, reported that donations to aid the stricken Chinese in Tungtou Village, received to date from workers of the whole province, totalled nearly JMP10,000,000. He called on workers to continue the donation campaign.
Support From Many Residents
Meanwhile, many letters supporting the Foreign Ministry's statement have been received by the Chinese newspapers Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Pao in Hongkong from Chinese residents there.
A typical letter written by a Chinese youth states, "With the support of the people of our great motherland our struggle to defend our legitimate rights is not isolated. The attempt of the British Government of Hongkong to suppress the Chinese people's patriotic movement by means of arrest, will certainly not succeed."
A group of workers declared in their letters, "Our Foreign Ministry's statement fully demonstrates our motherland's ardent love and concern for us. This has further strengthened our faith in and enhanced our understanding of the motherland."
Most of the letters state that, with the support of their mighty motherland, the Chinese residents have complete confidence in their ability to smash the British plot to persecute them. (NCNA Peking Morse English 2350-hrs Feb. 7)
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