despite extreme provocation.
The Secretary of State and I
have already paid public tribute to them in Hong Kong, and I will do so again now.
5.
The casualties comprise 36 police and 70 demonstrators. Of these, two police and 14 other casualties were admitted to
hospital. There has been only one death, that of a bystander who was killed by a stone. 788 persons were arrested, of whom 42 have been released or aquitted. Of the remainder 439 have been convicted of riot, unlawful assembly, assault, breaking curfew and other offences, and 307 cases are pending All persons arrested are being treated in the normal way in accordance with the due process of the law. The House may feel that these facts contrast somewhat with other reports alleging, for example, that" at least two hundred compatriot's were killed or 22nd Nig
Severely injured" in Hong Kong and Kowicon.
6. There have been no demonstrations since the 22nd May. But there have been a series of token stoppages in certain transport and supply services.
7.
In Hong Kong itself there has been widespread and forthright public support for the Government's measures to deal with violence, intimidation and hooliganism by a small minority, including messages of support to the Governor from nearly 300 representative organisa- tions.
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