Committee To Govern Peking

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 15

Committee To Govern Peking

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PEKING, April 19.

A new revolutionary committee is about to be set up to govern Peking, a Red Guard newspaper said in Peking yesterday.

The Chinese capital, with a population of six million, has been without a clearly-defined administration since the city’s mayor, Mr Peng Chen, was dismissed 10 months ago.

Yesterday’s report said that 15 representatives, headed by

the Public Security Minister, Mr Hsieh Fu-chih, had already been selected for the new “Peking Revolutionary Committee.”

The Red Guard newspaper named Mr Wu Teh second in the list of 15, but gave no indication of who would fill the top office. Mr Wu Teh, deputy head of the Peking Communist Party Committee formerly headed by Mr Peng Chen, has apparently made a come-back. He succeeded Mr Peng Chen after last June’s purge, but fell victim to the Red Guards later and was reported to have been dismissed. However, in recent weeks the official press has again described him as “a leading member of the Peking municipality.”

Recently there has been no official indication of how Peking is administered, although a military conunitee headed by Mr Hsieh Fu-chih, who is responsible for police and security matters, is believed to have exercised broad powers. Public services have apparently functioned normally in recent months, however.