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Apparent attempt to intimidate Commercial Radion, one of their most outspoken critics, Communist terrorists today viciously attacked one of most popular producers of the station.
The producer Lam Bun and his brother after getting into car outside their Kowloon home when terrorists threw a petrol bomb into their car and set it on fire.
Terrorists had stopped their car by pretending to be road
repairers and waving red flags.
Both brothers are in critical condition in hospital.
Lam Bun has used his influence and position to launch
anti-Communist campaign over Commercial Radio. Communist agitators have been campaigning against Lam Bun for several months and posters were put up in Macao recently denouncing him as traitor and threatening him with punishment.
Immediately after the attack Commercial Radio announced a reward of one repeat one hundred thousand dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. A reward of fifty repeat fifty thousand dollars was also offered by police.
In statement Managing Director of Company Mister George Ho strongly condemned the "callous act" of the local Communists. He said that despite the intimidation his station would continue to expose all Communist plots and support the Government in the maintenance of law and order.
During today bomb disposal teams received more than thirty repeat thirty calls to deal with suspected bombs left in various public places.
But only two found in railway workers quarters in the new territories were genuine. The others were either "trick" bombs with no explosives or hoaxes,
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