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221130. Report 2. Reports published in Right Wing and Independent Chinese newspapers as well as in English Press condemned the senseless killing of two young Chinese children by a Communist planted bomb in North Point on Sunday.
Newspapers say they have been receiving telephone calls from residents protesting against "dastardly act of Communists".
In Kowloon banner protesting against the children's death was hung up on wall next to the Communist Bookshop in Nathan Road.
[Gps undec] will not (repeat not) be soon forgotten". A paper says the sympathy of whole community will go out to the Wong family, an ordinary working family plunged into such sudden and hideous tragedy.
Editorial says the family has the sympathy of whole community but not (repeat not) of those "lurking Pariah-like on its
outskirts for whom the incident might never have occurred though at other times they are so lavish with their propaganda photographs and distorted news reports."
Commenting on silence of Communist Press on bombing, paper asks whether this is an indication of shame.
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Hong Kong Standard describes killing of children as a "most un-Chinese act": paper adds "Communists by killing these two children have condemned themselves in eyes of community. have also incurred wrath and indignation of every one by their senseless crime which puts them in category of conscienceless Gestapo". Singtao Jih Pao poses this question to Wen Wei Pao and Takung Pao and all Communists "Do you think death of children represents a great victory for the ever victorious thought of Mao Tse' tung?" Singtao describes killing as a wicked act and calls on the Communists to stop their terrorist acts if they really care for their fellow countrymen.
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