RED GUARDS TO RETURN HOME

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31234, 5 December 1966, Page 17

RED GUARDS TO RETURN HOME

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) PEKING, December 4. China’s 20 million Red Guards have been given 17 days to leave Peking and other cities and return to their homes.

Several hundred teen-age Guards from the provinces still crcwded Peking’s streets and parks as the order to quit the cities was posted yesterday.

The notice, signed by the Communist Party Central Committee and the Government said the Red Guard rallies reviewed by Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung on November 25 and 26, were the last in the present series. The notice recalled that the Guards had been originally ordered to leave the capital by November 21. It did not comment on the delay. Still Arriving Young Red Guards are still coming into Peking, but more have been leaving than arriving over the last few days. Those still arriving are mostly small groups on foot after treks of more than 100 miles. With the onset of severe winter frosts, it has become more difficult to provide accommodation, food, and medical treatment for the Guards camping in the capital’s schools, cinemas, universities and parks. Fanatical Red Guards are encountering bloody resistance from workers and party members, the Soviet news agency, Tass, said yesterday.

Tass said hundreds were hurt and several killed in rioting against their movement.