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Ta Kung Pao June 7, 1967
Peking
Calls to Smash
Reactionary Rule in Hongkong
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Peking, June 3 (Hsinhua) The People's Daily today frontpages an editorial en titled 'Resolutely Strike Back At the Provocations of British Imperialism'.
The editorial states that a great struggle against the bloody persecution by the British imperialists has broken out in Hongkong. Regardless of repeated warnings by the Chinese Government, the British authorities in Hongkong have been intensifying their provoca tions against the Chinese people.
The editorial declares that British imperi alism is the wicked colonialist rulers of Hong- kong and the enemy of the seven hundred million Chinese people as well as the enemy of their four million compatriots in Hong kong. For the past one hundred years and more, the British imperialists have committed monstrous crimes in Hongkong. We must ex- pose and propagate all the crimes, arouse the masses to condemn them, make them known to every family in Hongkong so that the masses can thoroughly recognize the aggres- sive, reactionary and decaying nature of Bri- tish imperialism.
The evil doings and bloody persecution by the British imperialists can absolutely not be tolerated by the seven hundred million Chi- nese people as well as by their compatriots in
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Hongkong.
The editorlal calls on the compatriots in Hongkong and Kowloon further to mobilize and organize themselves, launch vigorous struggle against the wicked British imperial- ists, and be ready at all times to respond to the call of the great motherland to smash the reactionary rule of the British imperialists.
The editorial says, "The patriotic Chinese residents in Hongkong and Kowloon, fight on courageously! The millions of Red Guards and the hundreds of millions of revolutionary, masses of the motherland who have won great victories in the Great Proletarian Cultural Re volution support you. All the seven hundred million Chinese people armed with Mao Tse- tung's thought vow to be the powerful sup porters of their compatriots in Hongkong.
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Peking, June 3 (Hsinhua) - Today, people throughout China voiced unreserved sup port for the People's Daily editorial entitled 'Resolutely Strike Back at the Provocations of British Imperialism'.
Reactions from all parts of the country were unanimous on the following point, that the editorial is the militant voice of the great Chinese people armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought; that it is a mighty support for the four million Chinese residents in Hongkong in their heroic fight against the British imperialists, Unanimous Voice
People are particularly indignant at the fact that, despite repeated warnings from the Chi- nese Government, the British imperialists have continued to intensify their provocations against the Chinese people.
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Everywhere, people pledged full support their compatriots in Hongkong in their strug gle to smash the reactionary rule enforced by the British imperialists and destroy this infernal British colonialist domination.
'Revolution is no crime; rebellion is justi- fied'-Peking Red Guards and other prole- tarian revolutionaries give encouragement to their Chinese compatriots in Hongkong with this saying famous in China's cultural revolu- tion.
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People's Liberation Army fighter Wang Jen-ju of the Peking garrison declared, 'the Chinese People's Liberation Army is composed of sons of the people. We'll not watch with indifference the persecution of our fellow countrymen in Hongkong by the British im- perialists. We'll give them powerful backing In their just struggle.'
Revolutionary Masses
The fascist atrocities of the British authori- ties in Hongkong against the Chinese compa- triots had caused the greatest indignation among Shanghai proletarian revolutionaries,
the revolutionary masses and the Red Guard young fighters.
The revolutionary masses in Kwangchow pointed out that the People's Daily editorial
was a mobilisation call to struggle against the outrages perpetrated by the British authorities in Hongkong. The Chinese people would re- solutely respond to this call and fight shoulder to shoulder with their fellow countrymen in Hongkong.
Many revolutionary workers angrily de- nounced the British imperialists for their con- tinued bloody efforts to put down the patrio- tic Chinese residents in Hongkong in spite of repeated warnings from the Chinese Govern-
ment.
declared.
"This is absolutely intolerable,' they
Kwangchow workers reminded the British Imperialists of the general strike by the work- ers of Kwangchow and Hongkong in the 1920's which had dealt them a telling blow. The present struggle against the British out- rages in Hongkong would inevitably take on still greater proportions since the workers and other patriotic residents in Hongkong were armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought and had the backing of the 700 million people of their homeland.
The Red Guard young fighters seriously warned the British authorities in Hongkong that if they insist on being hostile to the 4 mil- lion Chinese compatriots in Hongkong and the 700 million Chinese people they will face fai- Jure and destruction. The day when the Bri- tish imperialists have to get out of China's sacred land will not be far off!
Cadres of Kwangchow pointed out that if the British authorities in Hongkong continue to step up their atrocities, then the anti-im- perialist struggle of the Chinese residents in Hongkong against persecution will also be- come stronger and the anti-imperialist strug- gle of the Chinese people will increase. The destiny of Hongkong depends upon the Chi- nese residents and the 700 million Chinese people and will not be determined by the rotten, moribund British imperialists.
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Hongkong, June 3 (Hsinhua) Today's People's Daily editorial entitled 'Resolute- ly Strike Back at the Provocations of British Imperialism' aroused great enthusiasms among the patriotic Chinese residents in Hongkong.
Workers and students volunteered to deliver as rapidly as possible the extras carrying this editorial, put out jointly by the Hongkong newspapers 'Wen Wei Pao' and 'Ta Kung Pao' this morning.
The extras were promtply posted up in fac- tories, schools and on the windows of banks and shops. In spite of the 'Emergency De- crees' promulgated by the British authorities in Hongkong, many organisations broadcast loudspeakers. the full text of the editorial to the public over
the editorial as 'the closest concern and great The patriotic residents in Hongkong hailed
est support to us from Chairman Mao, the red sun in our hearts.'
They pointed out that it helped them to see more clearly the way forward, and strengthen- ed their confidence and fighting will. "The moment our homeland issues the order, we'll crush the reactionary rule of the British im perialists,' they declared.
Workers in the rubber industry, active part cipants in the valiant struggle against the Bri- tish atrocities, promptly held a meeting to ex-
press their resolution to act in the way the edi- torial called for, to persist in the struggle against the stubborn enemy and deal it blows till final victory. They would carry on their struggle till the British imperialists were pulled down and completely discredited.
Discussions were also held by workers in the plants, and the 'Waterworks Authorities' and bus and tram depots, shipyards, cement
by seamen, in Hongkong and Kowloon, who had stood in the forefront in the struggle against the imperialist atrocities.
The students were clated when they heard this good news. They said that they would unite closely with the workers. To safeguard the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung and to protect the dignity of the Chinese people, they pledged to be resolute and fear no sacrifice and to fight against the British imperialists to the end and win final victory!
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