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HONG KONG, AUG. 18, REUTER THREE PRO-PEKING NEWSPAPERS SUSPENDED UNDER A COURT ORDER PRODUCED A COMBINED "DEFIANCE EDITION" TODAY PLEDGING TO CONTINUE PRESENTING The THOUGHTS OF MAO TSE-TUNG BY "ALL MEANS, "
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THE THREE CHINESE-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPERS PAC, THE HONGKONG EVENING NEWS AND THE AFTERNOON NEWS WERE ORDERED YESTERDAY TO SUSPEND PUBLICATION IMMEDIATELY PENDING COURT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST FIVE OF THEIR PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS AND EDITORS WHO WERE ARRESTED ON MUGUST 9.
THE FIVE ARE CHARGED WITH ALLEGED VIOLATION OF LAWS AGAINST SEDITION, INFLAMMATORY REPORTS AND THE SPREADING OF FALSE REPORTS,
THE "DEFIANCE EDITION", WHICH WAS MANDED FREE TO MORNING RUSH-HOUR PASSERS-BY, DEMANDED THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE FIVE MEN.
IT WAS NOT KNOWN WHERE THL "DEFIANCE EDITION" WAS FRINTED. THE PRO-NATIONALIST NEW LIFE EVENING POSI CLAIMED HOWEVER THAT THE EDITION CAME OFF PRESSES IN MACHO AND WAS THEN SMUGGLED INTO HONG KONG.
OTHER PRO-PEKING NEWSPAPERS TODAY CARRIED A JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED BY 14 COMMUNIST PUBLICATIONS AND PRINTING HOUSES CONDEMNING THE SUSPENSION ORDER AND DEMANDING TIS IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL.
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THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, HR, W.L. GREGG,
HAS MEANWHILE WARNED #ÌNE SCHOOLS AND INLIK BRANCHES AGAlkol Use or TheIK PREMISES FÜR DISSEMINATION OF INFLAMMATORY PROPAGANDA OR SUBVERSIVE TEACHing.
WLAFORS AND AN11-GOVERNMENT LEAFLETS ARL DOCUMENTS WERE FOUND BY POLICE IN RECENT RAIDS ON SOME OF THE SCROLLS.
THE BRITISH-OWNED CHINA MAIL REPORTED TODAY THAT TWO EMİSSARIES CAME HERE RECENTLY FROM PEKING TO INVESTIGATE THE FAILURE OF LEFTIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST The HONG KONG GOVERNMENT,
QUOTING INFORMED SOURCES, THE newer arck Sail inc TWO MEN WERE ONLY UN A FACT-FINDING MissTON AND WOULD NOT TAKE PART IN ORGANISING SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE COLONY.
ONE OF THE MISSION'S AIMS WAS TO SEE HOW THE "STRUGGLE FUND" WAS SPENT AS CHINA MAL CONTRIBUTED 200 MILLION HONG KONG DOLLARS (ABOUT 1,250,000 STERLING) TOWARDS li, The MAIL ADDED.
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