Tear-gas Used On Malaysian Crowd
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)
KUALA LUMPUR, April 9.
Police fired tear-gas shells down the main street of Malaysia’s capital today to break up 300 anti-Government demonstrators stoning a patrol car.
Riot police, with batons drawn, rolled up in front of Government ministries to check a procession of militant trade unionists holding a mile-long protest march through busy streets. The workers dropped their banners and slogans and fled for shelter into nearby shops
from the clouds of tear-gas.. A police spokesman said there were no arrests or injuries. The workers, claiming to represent nine trade unions in Malaysia and Singapore, were protesting against alleged police brutality in controlling a demonstration on a British-owned rubber estate near Malacca, 90 miles south-west of Kuala Lumpur, last month. Police moved into the estate after workers, fighting for recognition of their trade union, injured the British estate manager, Mr Donald Lewis, by clubbing him on the head with bottles.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 13
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