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Ta Kung Pao October 14, 1967
War of bombs
The war of bombs is getting fiercer. The bombs have been getting more numerous and more powerful, and also more strategically placed.
It was launched in retaliation for the atrocities the British Hongkong authorities committed on and around China's National Day. It was also to avenge Lu Han-pin, the harbour worker mur- dered by the British Hongkong police on that day. Yesterday evening, bombs were found all the way from Wanchai to Quarry Bay. All trams in that sector were held up for a long period.
For the third time, bombs, one genuine and one fake, were found in the tram depot, a prohibited
area, on October 11.
Forty-two bombs were reported in Shaukiwan yesterday morning, five of them real and 'very powerful', according to ballistics experts on the spot. Some of the bombs contained petrol.
Traffic in the area was held up for three hours while the bomb 'experts' disposed of the bombs.
A real bomb was reported for the first time on the Peak. Bombs and 'suspicious objects' were also discovered in Taipo and North Point.
Lightning protest rally in K'loon
Near a thousand people held a lightning rally yesterday morning some three blocks away from the Kowloon Police Headquarters, and one block away from the Mongkok Police Station.
At about ten o'clock, some 600 people came to Argyle Street where they put up a red banner on the mid-street railing there. The banner bore the inscription: The Mass Meeting of the Mongkok District for the Struggle against British Atrocities.'
A few hundred people living in the neighbour- hood came out on to the street of their own accord to take part in the rally.
A speech was made in support of the recent protest lodged by the Chinese Government with the British Government. The atrocities com- mitted by the British Hongkong authorities on and around China's National Day came in for some very severe attacks.
The slogans "We shall win; the British Hong- kong authorities will be defeated!' and 'Long live
HK delegation calls on
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torres, people's communes and schools. At the same time it has seen the clay sculpture-the 'Rent Collection Courtyard, the exhibition on the revolutionary rebel- Lion of the Red Guards in the capital, and revolutionary theatrical performances. The delegation also called on Chinese People's Liberation Army units stationed in Peking and reported on the struggle of Chinese nationals in Hongkong and Macao against imperialist violence to the revolutionary masses in Peking.
Revolutionary people and Red Guards warmly wel- comed and showed their feelings for the delegation dur- ing its stay in Peking. Proletarian revolutionaries in the capital highly appraised the victories won by the p.triotic Chinese in Hongkong and Macao in their strug- gles against imperialist-violence by holding high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought. They reiterated resolute support for the just struggle of their Hongkong compatriots and pledged to give them power- ful backing. Members of the delegation said that they would hold still higher the great red banner of Man Tse-tung's thought and carry the resistance struggle against British imperialist violence through to the end. The delegation left Peking to continue its visit în other parts of the country.-Hsinhua
But do
CKNOWLEDGING responsibility for the mine Awhich critically wounded Chang Tsu-wen (Cheung
Chi-man), a spokesman for the British Army in Hong- kong was reported to have said:
Chairman Mao!' rang throughout the area.
Songs and dances were performed towards the end of the rally amid applauses of 'Bravo!'
Badly wounded by British mine
CTS explodes GIS lie
Another lie spread by the GIS was exploded yesterday.
In a statement issued yesterday, the China Tra- vel Service described as '100 per-cent unfounded' a GIS allegation that the Service had 'requested that normal immigration facilities be resumed at Lown, the main Hongkong-China border crossing.'
The 'request' which had never been made was described in the local press as a fresh indication' that 'China wants to restore normal conditions with the Hongkong authorities."
The China Travel Service's statement asserted that it 'bas never, nor could have, made any re- quest of that nature to the British Hongkong au- thorities, either orally or in written form.'
The statement pointed out that the British au- thorities had only themselves to blame when all their agencies at the border crossing had to be moved into the railway station at Lowu.
The statement also warned the British Hong- kong authorities of inevitable severer punishment if they persisted in their criminal activities.
HK Chinese out of danger at Shumchun Hospital
Chang Tsu-wen (Cheung Chi-man) was report- ed Thursday night to be basically out of critical condition after a seven-and-a-half-hour operation by two surgical teams of three doctors each and
Wanton raid and arrest
-party hung a portrait of Chairman Mao upside down and try to make the teachers of the school stand under it and have their picture taken. The teachers resolutely refused.
The police raided the school under the pretext of looking for bombs. They found nothing.
Deportation trick
While the British Hongkong authorities have been trying by hooks and by crooks to make pa- triotic Chinese in prison sign documents for their deportation, an anti-deportation movement unfurled by the latter.
was
The Chinese prisoners pointed out in indigna.
tion: Hongkong is Chinese territory. No one will be allowed to deprive us of the right to live here. The Chinese in Hongkong have all the rights to leave for their motherland and to come back to Hongkong whenever they please. The British Hongkong authorities have no right to interfere with their movements.
graves of their ancestors on that particular day.
Chang was lucky that there was a hospital near by and that the Chinese peasant is no longer the one who would 'miad only the frost on his own roof, but has become the most public-spirited among the peoples of the world. The peasants who took it upon themselves to bring Chang across the border for medical care may well have saved his life.
CCORDING TO the Far Eastern Economic Review,
We adopt such measures as we consider necessary A much of the resentment that the community har- to protect our post along the border and naturally we do not publicise actual details of the precautions taken.' Naturally, it seemed to imply, it was Chang's own fault to have stepped on the mine and got himself wounded or even killed.
To dismiss the whole matter in this way betrays a callousness which is typical of the colonialists when the lives of 'natives' are 'concerned. It is especially glaring when the Army must have been notified that the pro- hibited areas along the border would be open to Chinese who would be coming in great numbers to 'sweep' the
bours towards the administration is the result of the surly callousness of minor functionaries-the thread- bare argument for absolving the high-ups, who are al- most always Europeans, by laying all the blames on the minor functionaries', who are exclusively Chinese.
This reminds ene of the three Chinese policemen charged with the murder of Li An which occurred under the very aegis of European police officers.
As a Chinese saying goes, 'The white dog stole the fish, but the yellow dog was given the stick."
a 600 c.c. blood transfusion in Shumchun.
Chang was critically wounded in the neck, the limbs, especially the legs when he stepped on a mine laid by the British army at the border. At the time he was trying to get across a wire fence to pay respect to his ancestral graves inside the fence. Neither the fence nor the mine was marked. Soon after the explosion, when Chang lied un- conscious on the ground and his mother, who was hardly for heip, several pea-
hospital. While a team of three doctors cut open his throat to ease his breathing, another team of three worked on his legs and feet.
The operation lasted from midday to 7:30 in the evening.
When Chang's mother thanked the doctors and nurses after the operation, they told her that they had done only what Chairman Mao expected of them.
53m in red in 5 months
In spite of the antedating of a great sum of money to hide it away in last year's expenses, the
Hongkong financial report still shows an accu- mulated deficit of 53 million dollars for the months April to August, August being some 20 million dollars in the red.
The police expenses for the 5-month paid, which amounted to 48 million dollars, almost doubled those for the corresponding period of last year.
New persecution in Stanley Prison
A new persecution measure was taken by the British prison authorities in the Stanley Frison. The Chinese patriots in the No. 4 and No. 5 wards there have been restricted indefinitely to their cells except for 20 to 30 minutes each day dur- ing which they are allowed out.
Though it has been getting cold, the Chinese in the Stanley Prison are still in shorts when the non-Chinese prisoners there have changed ing long trousers.
When the Chinese protested against such dis- criminating practices, they were told by the "Com- missioner of Prisons' C. J. Norman that the change was made out of international considerations which do not apply to the Chinese.
The Chinese in prison are now determined to fight against such national oppression.
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