PROTEST BY CHINESE
U.K. Employees In Peking (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PEKING, May 28. All Chinese employed by Britons in Peking went on strike on Friday and mounted a demonstration in the compound of the British Mission, singing and shouting slogans. The entire Chinese staff of Britain’s diplomatic mission—clerks, translators, drivers, and domestic staff of British diplomats and their families—failed to appear for work. Instead they marched together through the gates of the British Mission and demonstrated all morning in the compound. A deputation repeatedly asked to present a petition to British Charge d’Affaires, Mr Donald Hopson, protesting against the British authorities in Hong Kong and their handling of the recent labour unrest there. Numbering about 40 men and women, they stood in a circle before the mission steps chanting: “Down with British Imperialism,” and waving red booklets of Mao Tse-tung’s quotations.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31381, 29 May 1967, Page 20
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