COMMUNIST PROTEST
Damage To Aircraft INCIDENT ON HONGKONG AIRFIELD NZPA—Reuter —Copyright HONGKONG, Apl. 3. Peking radio tonight quoted a statement by the Communist Foreign Minister General Chou En-lai, that the Hongkong Government must be held fully and directly responsible for the Incident in which 7 of the 71 Chinese commercial aircraft grounded at Hongkong’s Kaitak airfield were damaged by a time bomb on Sunday. Declaring that the planes were * wrecked in a forbidden military zone guarded by British police,” Chou’s statement alleged that the Hongkong Government “ has impeded civil aeroplanes belonging to China from taking off for their homeland, while it has never seriously taken measures to protect the planes, thus enabling criminal elements to undertake sabotage.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27357, 5 April 1950, Page 7
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