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provocation. This form of atrocities will never be forborne by the Chinese people. I therefore, once again, lodge with you the most strongest and the most urgent protest against this action.
We compatriots of Hong Kong and Kowloon and all the Chinese people who armed with Mao Tse-Tung's thoughts, know only too well how to finish off you Fascist bandits. All blood debts must be paid by blood. The illegal occupation of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories by British Imperialists over the past 100 odd years will be completely cleared. If you do not bow and admit your faults, and insist on being the enemy of the Chinese people, the result can only be your being beaten to pieces by all the Chinese compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon. There is no other solution.
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This adds little new but there are two obvious lines for future exploitation.
(a) The destruction of a bust of Mao and the tearing
down of posters of Mao's thoughts. There was quite a brisk resistance to the police raid on Friday night, Busts of Mao were plentiful and the fact that only one was broken in the melee is remarkable. In general Mao's thoughts are not touched. It is possible that the odd poster bearing them has been removed but the policy is to limit action to obviously inflammatory material. G.I.S. here are countering these allegations.
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The death of a gas works employee in police custody which has already been reported. Another body has now been found in the Kowloon Gas Works in a coal bunker below ground level. It is estimated that death occurred two or more days ago so the man may have hidden in the bunker or fallen in during the police action on Friday. The result of the post mortem is not yet known,
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