RIOT IN HONG KONG
MINISTER REPORTS TO COMMONS
LONDON, March 3. The Colonial Secretary (Mr Oliver Lyttelton) told the House of Commons to-day that Saturday's riots in Hong Kong were touched off by a false rumour that a Chinese Communist ‘cqmfort mission” had arrived and was being detained. Two police and 12 civilians were injured when 5000 Chinese rioters, most of them trade unionists and their sympathisers, fought the British-led police for two hours.
Crowds had gathered to greet the ’comfort mission” whjph was expected from Canton with relief supplies for the 10,000 Chinese made homeless in the fire last November. As a sequel to the rioting, six Chinese will to-day be sentenced to three months’ hard labour on a charge of disorderly conduct with intent to provoke a breach of the peace. A seventh defendant received two months' hard labour.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26672, 5 March 1952, Page 7
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