Ta Kung Pao May 31, 1967 3
HK Chinese Struggle Committee
Hongkong, May 27 (Hsinhua) The Committee of Hongkong-Kowloon Chi- nese Compatriots of All Circles for the Struggle Against Persecution by the Bri- tish Authorities in Hongkong yesterday issued a statement exposing still great persecution of Chinese nationals being planned by the British Hongkong au- thorities.
It called on the Chinese nationals in Hongkong-Kowloon to take the necessary measures to carry the anti-imperialist violence struggle through to the end.
The statement recalled that before the blood left in Kowloon Walled City, San- pokong and Nathan Road had dried, the British Hongkong authorities further created the bloody May 22 incident, es- calating their persecttion of the patriotic Chinese nationals.
This incident took place after the Chi- nese Government had issued a statement of protest on May 15. This showed that the British Hongkong authorities were deliberately creating provocations against the Chinese Government and the 700 million Chinese people.
For the past few days, the statement said, the British Hongkong authorities had hastened to issue a number of so- called emergency orders, prohibiting mass gatherings, protest demonstrations, entry into 'courts', the use of loudspeakers for 'unlawful propaganda' or 'demagogic propaganda and broadcasts". They also made it clear that the police 'is au- thorised to break into any house for search or arrest of any person.' They made use of all propaganda organs to carry out slanders, vilification, intimida- tion and threats against patriotic Chinese nationals.
All this showed that the British Hong- kong authorities were trying to suppress the struggle against persecution of the patriotic Chinese nationals and, under the cloak of these "laws", openly and Hegally' prepare the ground for still larger arrests and persecution.
The statement emphasized: 'while wil- Tully persecuting Chinese nationals in Hongkong, the British Hongkong au- thorities forbid us to condemn and pro- test, still less to resist. That is impos✶
sible.'
It added that where there was oppres sion there was resistance. Defying gun- fire and batons, torture and iron chains, Chinese compatriots in Hongkong-Kow- loon, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, feared no sacrifice. They firm- ly carried on their struggle against per- secution wave upon wave. This was a fine demonstration of the heroic spirit of the Chinese nation in fighting the enemy to their last drop of blood.
If the British Hongkong authorities continued their evil-doing, they would come to no good end.
'Since the British Hongkong authori- tics resort to every sinister and sly means to escalate their outrageous persecution of Chinese compatriots, we Chinese in Hongkong-Kowloon have the right to use all methods in a tit-for-tat retalia- tion and escalation of the struggle against persecution to the finish,' the statement said,
'We call on all compatriots to get or ganised, go into action and take corres- ponding and necessary measures of es- calation. If the British Hongkong au- thorities dare to intervene arbitrarily, they must be held responsible for all the serious consequences."
The statement warned that the Bri- tish Hongkong authorities must quickly and unconditionally accept the five-point demand raised by the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the four-point demand raised by the Chinese nationals Hongkong-Kowloon.
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Will Fight to the End
It added: 'Our great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: "All reactionaries try to stamp out revolution by mass mur. der, thinking that the greater their mas sacre, the weaker the revolution. But contrary to this reactionary wishful thinking, the fact is that the more the reactionaries resort to massacre, the greater the strength of the revolution and the nearer the reactionaries approach
their doom, This is an inexorable law.'
'We solemnly declare that we have the powerful support of our Government and the 700 million Chinese people. We have the reliable backing of the great leader Chairman Mao. We will certain- ly carry this struggle against persecu- tion through to the end. We will not relax our efforts until complete vic- tory.'
Tit-for-Tat Struggle in 'Court'
According to Hsinhua news release on May 25,-patriotic Chinese compa- triots in Hongkong unreasonably arrest- ed by the British Hongkong authorities on May 22 waged a tit-for-tat struggle against the enemy in the British Hong- kong 'court' yesterday. Their dauntless heroism encouraged the great Chinese people who are armed with Mao Tse- tung's thought, and completely over- whelmed the British Hongkong authori ties.
All 95 compatriots who appeared at the 'Central Magistracy'y esterday had been tortured by the British Hongkong authorities. The gravely injured compa- triots were helped by their comrades- in-arms. Their clothes were stained with blood; some were still bleeding from their wounds. Some were bare- foot.
Contrary to usual practice, the 'judge' who administered the British fascist law went to the length of not allowing ser-
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iously injured men and women to sit down but maltreated them for several hours. In a militant spirit, the arrested compatriots told the judge' scornfully: "We are not prisoners. We have no "crime" to acknowledge! You must re- lease us immediately!'
Shen Li-chung, a worker of a Chinese trading concern, who had been savage- ly beaten up by half a dozen Hongkong policemen and was covered with blood, waged a courageous struggle in the enemy 'court'. He made a devastating exposure of the crimes committed by the British imperialists and defended the dignity of the Chinese people.
Shen Li-chung demanded: "Why don't you dare hold public hearings? What do you mean by this secret trial?'
The judge' asked Shen Li-chung if he could produce witnesses and Shen Li-chung retorted: 'All my patriotic countrymen in Hongkong are witnesses of your atrocities, all who have been
unjustifiably arrested and persecuted by you are witnesses of your atrocities, and all the 700 million Chinese people are witnesses of your crimes!'
Though put in an embarrassing posi- tion by Shen Li-chung's refutation, the 'judge' had the impudence to sentence him to nine months' imprisonment.
Huang Chen, a Chinese woman who had received a bad head injury which was still bleeding profusely, was sen- tenced to three months' imprisonment. Fearlessly, she scathingly denounced the brutalities done to her by policeman No. 3040.
The demonstrators arrived in perfect order that day, she recalled. Yet, at a signal, the "Riot Police' charged into the crowd beating and grabbing any- body they could lay hands on. Police- man No. 3040 hit Huang Chen about the head with his baton till her face ran blood and she fell to the ground. Then the thug stamped on her body with bis heavy boots and continued to beat her black and blue.
Li Chin-ping, a Chinese woman who was unjustifiably sentenced to three months imprisonment, had many wounds. She condemned the British Hongkong police for arresting her. In the police van, she was again cruelly beaten on the back by the police.
Liang Yen-fang, an 18-year-old girl, was arrested and was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. In 'court' she waged a dauntless struggle. Even the 'judge' had to admit that she was very firm.
Schoolboy's Experiences
in Police Custody
As told to a Ta Kung Pao Reporter by Ng Ka-men, a 17-year-old student of Heung To Middle School who was ar- rested on May 13 at Tungtautsun resettlement area and released on bond on May 22. The gruesome story he told is not an isolated one. It is one of many which have come out from the prisons where those who had been arrested waited for trail.
At about 3.30 p.m., May 13, when Ng Ka-men was on his way to a bus stop after visiting his aunt at Tungtau- tsun resettlement area, he was stopped by a detachment of 'riot police' and searched. When they found on him a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a Chairman Mao badge and his school card, some of them started to yell: This cad is one of Mao Tse- tung's kids. Let's give him some heavy beating.' So then and there some ten of the police men beated him with gun butts and batons on the back and the breast and threw on to the ground the copy of Chairman Mao's quotations he had. When he jumped forward to pick up the book, he came in for some more knocking about.
Then he was put on a police van, and beaten up again. One of the police men even needled him with something very sharp. They forced him to bow his head low so that photographers around would not be able to make out his face.
In the Wongtaisin Police Station where he was first detained, he was pushed into the 'plainclothesmen's room'. As soon as he was in, uniformed police men and plainclothesmen jumped on him and took their turn in striking him with batons and handcuffs and kicking him. At least two of them tried to intimidate
him. 'Admit,' they said, 'that you were paid and sent by your school to parti- cipate in stone-throwing and arson, and we shall set you free right away.'
When he refused to do so, he was knocked on to the ground and asked: "Is Mao Tse-tung good?' When the answer was 'Good!', he was beaten up on the back and knocked down once more on to the ground. As he was struggling to his feet, he was again asked the same question. By that time, Ng had forgot- ten all his pains. He shouted at the top of his voice: 'Chairman Mao is good!' For that, of course, he got some more heavy beating.
The whole thing lasted for two hours. What followed is better told in Ng's own words:
In the ward where I was detained, there were eight young people besides me. They had all been beaten up, and some of them were bleeding on their heads. My left shoulder was bleed- ing, and my back and feet were swol- len. I fell accute pain around my heart and my liver. A 14-year-old boy was
in even worse condition. He had been beaten up from one in the afternoon to six. The T-shirt he had on was dyed red. He could hardly move. I and others had to help him to lie down. The pain he felt made him cry 'Mom!' throughout the night. We also heard groaning coming out of the room next to ours.
On May 15 I was brought to the North Kowloon Magistracy for 'trial'. Once I was in the basement of the Magistracy, some ten uniformed police men there took turn in beating me up and kicking me until the corner of my left eye bled and I fainted. When I came to myself, I pledged to myself
that blood debt must be paid in blood. Before I was brought to the court, I was intimidated repeatedly: 'When the judge asks you, you must admit to all your guilts. If not, we shall beat you up again when you come down from there. When the judge asks you if you have anything to say, say 'Nothing." Or you will get some more beating."
At the court I was charged with 'throwing stones at the police', to which I emphatically denied. When the court adjourned and I was back in the base- ment, I was made to sit on an in- visible stool-that is, to crouch in such a way as if I had a stool under me. When my legs were numb all over, the thugs there pushed me on to the ground and slashed me with their belts till I fainted and fainted again.
When I was once more brought be- fore the 'court', the prosecutor alleged that I was a worker. I denied this and was supported by my father who was in the court. The "judge' seemed to be embarrassed and adjourned the court, again.
On May 22 I was brought to the For the first Magistracy once more. time nothing happened to me in the base- ment. I felt reassured when I heard the chanting of Chairman Mao's quota- tions and singing of revolutionary songs outside.
As soon as appeared at the 'court', hundreds of people, my teachers and schoolmates, shouted: 'Protest against illegal arrests!' 'Protest against illegal trials!' 'Set Ng Ka-men free at once!* The judge' was seemingly in conster nation. He hurriedly put me on besad. for a year and set me free,
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