Reilly calls to Chinese troops

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34126, 12 April 1976, Page 17

Reilly calls to Chinese troops

(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) HONG KONG, April 11.

Supporters ol: China’s disgraced forme r Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Teng | Hsiao-ping, killed one 'person in “counterrevolutionary” rioting in Chengchow, tJie capiiital of the province of i Honan, in Cent ral China, last week. Radio Peking ■reported today'.

I The rioting in Chenchow I was apparently similar to the demonstrations in Tien An Men Square, Peking, that (gave rise to the dismissal of Mr Teng, who was also a (vice-chairman of the Communist party. I The radio disclosure was the first from official Chinese sources that disturbances had occurred outsidie Peking during observance of Ching Ming, a traditional festival honouring thet dead. In (Chengchow, a:; in Peking, ■the demonstrators were paying their resne< :ts to the late Prime Minister., Chou En-lai, | who supported Mr Teng. I Quoting from a speech by Mr Liu Chien-h sun, the senior partv official Itn the Honan ■ province, the radio said that supporters of Mr Teng had (“used Ching Mting as an occasion to org: inise counterrevolutionary < Jemonstrations similar to thos e that had oc|curred in Tien An Men (Square on Monday.

“During the disorder, they killed Chiang Ching-liang, who worked f.br the Chengchow telecommunications office.”

Army 1 Hacking Mr Liu’s report of the inciIdent in Chengchow was made at a mass rally on Friday to ,support the dismissal of Mr (Teng and the elevation of the former acting Prime Minister, | Mr Hua, to fthe Prime Minjstership and First Vicechairmanship of the party, (making him t'itie heir-apparent to Chairman Mao Tse-tung. I N.Z.P.A.-Reiuter reports that the Ne w China News Agency has announced that [the Chinese .Army has joined | the Communist Party in I “rallying supiport for the ap-

pointment of a new leader and the disgrace of an old one.”

“Troops from seven important districts in the country have held huge rallies to hail the downfall of Teng and the appointment of Hua,” the agency is quoted as saying.

“From offices to barracks, from sea islands to frontier outposts, a revolutionary atmosphere of unitv in struggle now prevails in the People's Liberation Army units stationed throughout the country ” In the strategic province of Sinkiang, which has a long border with the Soviet Union, Commander Yang Yung is reported to have urged his troops “to strengthen their preparedness against war, stand in full battle array, and be ready at all times to smash

'the subversive, disruptive, and aggressive activities of class enemies at home and abroad.” ‘Deathbed struggle’ In Peking, the agency said, the municipal party committee had called for "vigilance against counter-revolution-aries to guard against any recurrence of the rioting in Tien An Men Square on Monday.”

The agency went on: “Those events were organised, planned, and premeditated, and they amounted to a deathbed struggle by the bourgeoisie, both in and outside the narty, and by all the counter-revolutionary forces represented bv Teng. “The riots took place un-l der the guise of commemor-

lating the late Chou and revolutionary martyrs but were really a plot to divide the] [Central Committee led by| Chairman Mao . . . They constituted an incident unIprecedented since the found-; ing of the People’s Republic [of China in 1949.” ] In Foochow, at a mass mill-1 !tary rally on the Fukien front facing Taiwan, the pol-; itical commissar, Mr Li (Chih-min. is reported to have| (addressed the soldiers there ion “the need to greatly in-; crease our vigilance, re-] inforce our preparedness (against war, and remain in I combat readiness.” The Taiwanese Prime Minister (Mr Chiang Ching-kuo) i [has said that the Peking ( riots were accompanied by (demonstrations in many other Chinese cities, and that they constituted an up-| rising against Maoism. He| called on Chinese soldiers and party workers to “join the people in struggling against this Communist] tyranny.” Commissar Li is quoted as saying: “We will wipe out resolutely, thoroughly,. wholly, and completely all!

-enemies who dare to eniicroach upon our territory, ■ land we will make contribu’|tions to the defence of our ' great Socialist motherland ■ and the liberation of our ■] sacred territory of Taiwan.” ' In the central Chinese city of Changtu, near Tibet, the ■local P.L.A. commander, Mr '.Liu Hsing-ling, told a rally: ;j“Teng Hsiao-ping’s latest ' malicious behaviour and the ’ I counter-revolutionary politi!‘cil incident in Tie An Men (Square have helped us to see more clearly that the class ' struggle is acute and com- ' plex. The present struggle to beat back the Right • deviationist attempt is a (gigantic struggle between the /(proletariat and the bour-| ’ geoisie.” Other rallies were held for I P.L.A. units in Peking, (Shenyang, Kunming, and, (inner Mongolia over the last] ; few days, the N.C.N.A. reported, adding that party' committees in seven provinces had sent messages to' (Chairman Mao expressing] support for the decision to promote Mr Hua and strip .Mr Teng of all his posts in I the party and Government.