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Telno 1384.
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office telegram No. 1384 of 14 September
Repeated for information to:- PA Singapore
Five reporters charged with taking part in an intimidating assembly and ultering inflammatory speeches, were each sentenced to three years imprisonment at the Kowloon District Court yesterday. As was expected. both the accused and some fifty people in the public gallery shouted protests when sentences were passed. Order was restored quickly and three women in the gallery who had started the demonstration were immediately sentenced to fourteen days for contempt of court. They continued to protest until removed from court.
2. The five reporters concerned were:-
Ng Shui-Shing, Ching Po Daily News:
Lam Yuk-Wo, New China News Agency:
Wong Yap-Lau, Wen Wei Pac:
Chan Chi-Fung, Commercial Daily News:
and a woman,
Wong Ling of Ta Kung Pao.
All five were observed by the Police on 29 July in Kowloon leading an unruly group of school children (about 100) in slogan shouting and singing. They were arrested after a brief car chase by the four detectives who had observed them at their work of incitement over a period of at least fifteen minutes.
O.A.G.'
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