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SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1989

GOVERNOR SHOCKED AND SADDENED BY TRAGIC EVENTS IN PEKING

TRAGIC

TODAY (SUNDAY) SAID EVENTS HAPPENING IN

HE PEKING,

WAS

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SHOCKED AND SADDENED BY THE PARTICULARLY THE LOSS OF LIFE.

SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS SURE THAT THESE WERE SENTIMENTS WOULD BE SHARED BY MOST PEOPLE IN HONG KONG.

THAT

"IT IS A TIME FOR SAD AND SOBER REFLECTIONS FOR ALL OF US HERE," HE STRESSED.

SIR DAVID SAID: "ALL OF US IN HONG WITH GREAT CONCERN WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THESE PAST FEW WEEKS.

KONG HAVE BEEN WATCHING IN PEKING AND IN CHINA

"WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING WITH INTENSE INTEREST THE WAY WHICH THE PROBLEM WOULD BE HANDLED AND WHAT THE OUTCOME WOULD BE.

"I THINK MOST OF US HERE HAVE BEEN WATCHING AND LISTENING VERY CAREFULLY EVERY NEWS BROADCAST THAT HAS BEEN COMING OUT FROM PEKING AND WE HAVE BEEN SERVED EXTREMELY WELL BY THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CARRYING THE NEWS TO US WITH SUCH SPEED, SIR DAVID SAID.

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IN RESPONSE TO GRAVE CONCERN EXPRESSED BY OVERSEAS CHINESE COMMUNITIES ON THE SITUATION IN HONG KONG, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, GAVE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:

"I CAN CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND THAT HK COMMUNITIES ROUND THE REST OF THE WORLD, IN NORTH AMERICA AND ELSEWHERE, HEARING REPORTS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CHINA, MAY WELL FEEL CONCERN ABOUT THE EFFECT IT IS HAVING ON HK. ALL OF US HERE, WE HAVE ALL BEEN HORRIFIED BY THE STORIES AND THE REPORTS THAT HAVE BEEN COMING IN DURING THE DAY. ABOUT THE EVENTS IN PEKING AND THE DEATH AND THE WOUNDING OF SUBSTANTIAL NUMBERS OF PEOPLE THERE.

THERE IS A VERY REAL SENSE IN THE COMMUNITY OF HORROR AND OF ANGER AT WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING. BUT DESPITE THESE VERY STRONG EMOTIONS THAT PEOPLE HAVE, THEY HAVE BEEN REACTING HERE WITH DIGNITY AND IN AN ORDERLY FASHION, AND I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT IN THE DAYS TO COME IT WILL BE THE SAME. IT WOULD BE QUITE WRONG TO THINK THAT THERE IS ANY CONFUSION HERE AND IN THE DAYS TO COME I AM SURE THAT THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WILL GO ON BEHAVING WITH RESTRAINT AND WITH A SENSE OF CARE FOR HONG KONG."

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