APPLAUSE FOR MAO

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31154, 2 September 1966, Page 11

APPLAUSE FOR MAO

GV Z P A -Reuter —CopynoM/ HONG KONG, Sept. 1. Mao Tse-tung drew thunderous cheers when he appeared at a mammoth rally in Peking yesterday attended by half a million “revolutionary teachers and students,” the New China News Agency reported today. He was accompanied by the Defence Minister, T.in Pi»o. and other party and state leaders Wearing an olive-green army uniform and army cap. Mao stood in an open car as he drove round the rally.

With him in the car were Lin Piao, Ho Lung, chairman of the Physical Culture and I Sports Commission, Hsieh ■ Fu-chih, Vice Minister of the State Council, and Yang Cheng-wu. Acting Chief of the General Staff. Most teachers and students attending the rally were from universities and middle schools in ail parts of the country who had come to exchange experiences in the “great proletarian cultural I revolution ” The Prime Minister, Chou Fn-lai was named first and the State chairman. Liu Shao--hi, seventh, in the agency's list of other party and state 'eaders who rode four-to-a-car.

The Foreign Minister, Chen Yi, followed Liu Shao-chi.

' Marshal Lin Piao told the i. rally the present situation in 1 the great proletarian cultural i revolution was “very fine" • and said the “revolutionary’ ! torrents of the masses were ? washing away all sludge and filthy water left over from ? the old society and transi forming the entire social out- ? look of China.” • He called on revolutionary - young fighters to read Mao’s • works earnestly and follow I his teachings and act in accordance with his instruc i tions. II Chou En-lai urged the Red ; ■ Guards to make all-out efforts ; and become a “highly organ- • ised and disciplined militant ■ army with high political consciousness and become a rei Hable reserve force of the Liberation Army.