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3. THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT DELEGATIONS HAVE BEEN GOING TO GOVT

HOUSE, THE COLONIAL SECRETARIAT, PAPT OF EDUCATION AND TO THE

POLICE DEPT TO PROTEST AGAINST THIS ''FASCIST ATROCITY

THEY HAVE REITERATED THE THREE DEMANDS.

AT THE SAME TIME THE HONG KONG AUTHORITIES HAVE REFUSED TO

RELEASE THE HEADMASTER ''IN ORDER TO ALLOW HIM TO LODGE AN APPEAL

AND HAVE REFUSED TO EXTEND THE PERIOD IN WHICH AN APPEAL CAN

BE LODGED''. THEY HAVE ALSO EXPLOITED US IMPERIALIST AND

NATIONALIST NEWSPAPERS TO SLANDER PATRIOTIC SCHOOLS.

THE DEPT

OF EDUCATION HAS BEEN CLAMOURING THAT IF THE SCHOOLS DO NOT

OBSERVE THE REACTIONARY LAWS OF THE HONG KONG BRITISH THEN THEY

WILL CERTAINLY HAVE ACTION TAKEN AGAINST THEM.

THE ARTICLE ENDS BY SAYING THAT COMPATRIOTS ''ARE PAYING

CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITUATION AND ARE

PREPARED AT ANY MOMENT TO GIVE A FIRM. REHUFF TO THE HONG KONG

BRITISH AUTHORITIES IF THEY CONTINUE TO PERSECUTE CHUNG WAH

1:1DDLE SCHOOL OR IF THEY ENGAGE IN NEW PLOTS TO EXTEND THIS

PERSECUTION TO OTHER PATRIOTIC SCHOOLS'

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