RED GUARDS URGED TO SHOW RESTRAINT

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31150, 29 August 1966, Page 11

RED GUARDS URGED TO SHOW RESTRAINT

<N Z Press Association—Copyright)

HONG KONG, August 28.

The Peking “People’s Daily” today called on China’s youthful “Red Guards” to stop using force in pushing cultural revolution among the populace.

According to the Soviet News Agency. Tass, nine Red Guards have been killed in one area of Peking by people violently resisting the new revolution.

An editorial in the “People’s Daily,” quoted by Peking Radio, repeatedly stressed the need for civility and discipline. It said the Red Guards should emulate the discipline of the Army and be as loyal 1 to the party and ! (hairman Mao Tsetung as Army officers and men. "People's Daily” is the! organ of the Chinese Communist Party. It was the first Peking report publicly calling on the reform-bent Chinese youths to use restraint in their actions

against the old order and Western influence. The editorial. however, said: “We must support their fervent revolutionary movement.” But it cautioned the youths that their actions must con-' form with Mao Tse-tung’s teachings w’hich they should! study and obey. It added: “We would fairly i oppose those who deviate i from Mao’s instructions.” House To House The Red Guards have been ! swarming through Peking and i other Chinese cities in a campaign to stamp out everything they think is opposed Ito the cultural revolution. I They are reported to have’ I rampaged from house to) house, harassing people in I their attempt to put into prac-

tice the principles of the, great proletarian revolution—a violent sweeping away of old ideas, culture, habits and customs.

Tass reported that the situation in Peking was becoming “increasingly tense.” The Czechoslovak news ■ agency, Ceteka, today reported rumours from Peking of false Red Guards squads being formed to resist the genuine ones. Soviet Protest The Soviet Union, mean-; while, has published a harshly-worded protest to China demanding an immediate and unconditional end to hooliganism outside its Embassy in Peking The protest was handed to ithe Chinese Embassy in Moscow on Friday. It followed, among other things, the stoning of Soviet Embassy personnel and the j stopping of a car carrying the j Soviet Charge d’Affaires, i Today’s “People’s Daily” j editorial advised the Red 'Guards: “Do not resort to I force but use more peaceful ways. “Expose fully and criticise the demons and monsters, and bring about their downfall by peaceful means, which are the only means to win the struggle, instead of violence.”

Eight Rules

It urged them to adhere to eight rules set down by Mao: Talk calmly. Sell and buy calmly. Return things borrowed. Compensate for things destroyed. Do not beat or abuse others. Do not damage farms or farm products. Do not molest women. Do not mistreat prisoners of war.

Red Guards, the editorial added, should abstain from violence, abuses and excesses like model soldiers acting strictly under orders. I Tass said the Red Guards ;had been rounding up all I people and property in Peking that did not “tally with the new ideology, culture, customs and manners.” Chopsticks Too The people were being arrested and the property confiscated. Tass said the list of antirevolutionary goods included everything from books to chopsticks. Yesterday the official New China News Agency said people in all parts of China burst into song, cheered or set off firecrackers at the revolutionary activities of the Red Guards.

Table Tennis

, The agency reported their onslaught on the “Four olds” —old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits — under the heading: “Whirl-

wind of cultural revolution sweeps across China.”

The campaign had received resolute and heartfelt support from the masses of workers, peasants and intellectuals throughout the country, the agency said. The Chinese agency also reported that the 1966 Peking international table tennis tournament opened last night “in the midst of the high tide of China’s great proletarian cultural revolution.”

The opening ceremony, attended by 15,000 people, was “filled with a militant atmosphere of solidarity against imperialism and a revolutionary spirit of destroying the old and fostering the I new.”

! A big picture showing [Chairman Mao playing table [tennis has been installed in the practice hall, arousing great admiration from players of various countries, the agency added.