SURPRISE PARADE
Pro-Maoists I Demonstrate (\ 7. P A Reuter—Copyright) ! PEKING. March 15. ; One hundred thousand pro- [ Mao Chinese paraded through Peking yesterday in a surprise demonstration the] biggest since the Red Guard siege of the Soviet Embassy ‘ a month ago. The parade took place dur-i ing a period of relative calm I jin the Chinese capital. Official newspapers had, jbeen stressing the need for; discipline and unity under a three-way alliance of the. Army, revolutionary masses I and pro-Mao officials.
Those in the parade denounced "reactionary and revisionist” Chinese leaders. Later, some of the demonstrators moved to the Soviet Embassy, where they shouted slogans and burnt effigies of the Russian leaders.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 17
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