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CHINA
AFTERMATH ROUND UP 3 (THIS PAGE HONGKONG NEW HATERIAL)
OFFICIALS IN HONGKONG TONIGHT DENIED REPORTS THAT POLICE INTEND TOMORROW MORNING TO REMOVE THE "SQUATTERS" WHO HAVE ERECTED
HELTERS AND BELL TENTS ON THE SITE WHERE THEIR CONDEMNED HUTS WERE RECENTLY DEMOLISHED.·
NORMALLY RELIABLE SOURCES IN THE COLONY EARLIER REPORTED THE SQUATTERS HAD BUILT UP PILES OF STONES, BRICKS,
ECES OF WOOD AND OTHER MISSILES READY TO COPE WITH AMY ATTEMPT TO "DRIVE THEM FROM THEIR LAND.Z
THE SOURCES ADDED THAT THE "SQUATTERS" HAD BEEN WARNED BY THE POLICE.
A REUTER DESPATCH FROM SHANGHAI SAID THAT APART FROM ISOLATED STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS ALL WAS QUIET THERE TODAY. THE BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL, HOWEVER, REMAINED UNDERSTRONG
GUARD.
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IN SPITE OF HARD LABOUR BY AN ARMY OF COOLIES, SEVERAL SLOGANS WRITTEN ON WALLS WITH PITCH REMAINED TODAY AS A MEMORY OF YESTERDAY'S STOREY SCENES.
ACCORDING TO CHINESE REPORTS IN SHANGHAI, STUDENT DEMONSTRA- TIONS OVER THE KOWLOON EVICTION ISSUE ARE DUE TO BE HELD IN HANKOV, 600 MILES UP THE YANGTSE RIVER FROM SHANGHAI, AND PEIPING, THE FORMER CHINESE CAPITAL. REUTER MF :.. 1803