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EVACUATION 3 CHONGKONG NEW MATERIAL)
SHE AND HER HUSBAND WENT DOWNSTAIRS TO PREVENT THE CROWD COMING IN, BUT WERE KNOCKED ABOUT AND FORCED BACK UPSTAIRS. "THAT'S WHERE I GOT THIS" SHE SAID,
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INDICATING HER BANDAGED HEAD.
LATER, AND BEFORE THE OFFICES WERE SET ON FIRE, POLICE ESCORTED THEM TO SAFETY, ALTHOUGH THE CROWD ATTEMPTED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO STONE THEM.
CHINESE PRESSMEN ASSISTED MR MURRAY, HIS WIFE, AND MISS BARBARA HORNE, SECRETARY TO THE CONSUL GENERAL, TO
ESCAPE FROM THE COMPOUND OF THE CONSULATE.
MR MURRAY WAS BELIEVED TO BE SPECIALLY SOUGHT
BY THE DEMONSTRATORS, AND THE OF THE CHINESE CALLED OUT THAT THE THREE WERE AMERICANS IN MGDER TO GET THEM SAFELY THROUGH THE CROWD.
CONSIDERABLE LOOTING OF THE BRITISH PREMISES TOOK PLACE BESIDES THE BURNING DOWN OF THE CONSULATE AND OTHER BUILDINGS.
MORE EVACUATED WOMEN
FROM AMONG THE 158 FOREIGNERS IN CANTON WERE
EXPECTED TO REACH HONGKONG LATER TODAY.
THEY WILL ARRIVE WHEN THE HONGKONG
AIRWAYS AIRLINER USED FOR TODAYS EVACUATION COMPLETES ITS SECOND TRIP.
THE REGULAR AIR SERVICE BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON HAS BEEN CANCELLED. REUTER MF 0608
CHINA
EVACUATION 4 CROUNDUP WITH NEW MATERIAL- HONGKONG)
FURTHER TROUBLE FOLLOWING THE ATTACKS IN CANTON WERE FEARED HERE TODAY WHEN IT WAS REPORTED AGITATORS WERE ENDEAVOURING TO ROUSE FEELING AMONG THE CHINESE IN KOWLOON, THE MAINLAND TOWN OF HONGKONG COLONY.
THE EVICTION OF CHINESE "SQUATTERS" FROM
CONDEMNED HUTMENTS IN THE OLD CITY OF KOWLOON WAS THE CAUSE OF THE ANTI-BRITISH DEMONSTRATIONS, WHICH THE HONGKONG
PAPER SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST SAID TODAY WAS STIRRED UP BY "MISREPRESENTATION OF FACTS."
CERTAIN PROVOCATEURS HAD "WILFULLY AND
MISCHIEVOUSLY WORKED UP ANTIBRITISH FEELING IN CANTON AND ELSEWHERE" THE PAPER SAID, IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT A CRISIS IN
SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS.
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