DRAFT PRESS NOTICE
CASUALTIES IN HONG KONG DISTURBANCES:
LOCAL GOVERNMENT 'S CHALLENGE.
205-415
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Mrs. Judith Hart, the Minister of State for Colonial
Affairs, told the House yesterday that throughout the Hong Kong disturbances to date, 36 police and 70 demonstrators were reported injured of whom three police and 14 others were admitted to hospital and subsequently discharged; there was only one death, that of a bystander who was killed by a stone. The Minister said these facts contrasted with reports which had appeared elsewhere, alleging, for example, that on one day alone "at least 200 compatriots, were killed or severly injured."
This information may be read in conjunction withthe
challenge issued by the Hong Kong Government "to anyone knowing of any deaths in the disturbances (beside the one boy who was killed by a stone) to produce the names of those killed and information about where the bodies or graves are. One man ng Yuen Heng) claimed by the pro-Communist press to have been killed on 22 May appeared perfectly fit in
court two days later."
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News Department,
2 June, 1967.
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