PRESS REPORTS ON BOMB INCIDENTS
Non-Communist Press
Bomb incidents received full coverage in the papers on March 28 and 29. A majority of them use it as their front-page lead story.
On 28th., the papers gave detailed descriptions of the discovery and blasting of the bomb outside the Central Government Offices, and how Hong Kong's ballistics expert Mr. Norman Hill was injured.
Newspaper reports on the next day mainly covered the following
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Norman Hill's condition;
More bombs found;
Governor's expression of sorrow and his order for the arrest of culprits;
Statement made by various student bodies emphasizing their innocence and their objections to violence.
On the 30th.,
most of the papers carried Government's statement on the bomb incidents, and reports of the 70 Bi-Weekly being searched by the Police.
Fai Po exclusively reported that Leung Wai Lam of the New China News Agency had given his guarantee to Hong Kong Government that China had nothing to do with the "bomb incidents".
Press interest in the "bomb issue" seemed to have faded somewhat on 31st. Anyway, it was overshadowed by the hi-jack incident at Kai Tak airport. They continued to publish statistics of "suspicious" objects" found over the Colony.
Communist press
With the exceptions of Commercial Daily and Ching Po giving straight forward report on the "Hill bomb-blast" on 28.3.71, the Communist press have kept quiet on the other bomb incidents.
And, only Hong Kong Evening News, a "mosquito" left-wing paper with an estimated circulation of under 10,000, published an editorial commenting on the incidents.
EDITORIAL COMMENTS ON BOMB INCIDENTS
Non-Communist press
TIN TIN YAT PO (28.3.71)
We feel very sorry for Mr. Hill.
No-one in Hong Kong like to see "Compatriots-don't-come-near" kind of incidents happen again; and they would object to the use of this method to oppose increases in water charges. However, this
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