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A prelude to the June 7th riots.
1May 5, 967, the industrial unrest began to deteriorate. Some workers stopped the factory from shipping, and the scene was tense.

On May 6th, 1967, riot police were on the scene, but the workers not only did not disperse outside the factory, but also clashed with the on-site police. 2 1 worker was arrested by the police and many workers were injured. After the hearing, eight people were even sentenced to jail. Trade union representatives who went to the police station were also detained.

On May 7th, 1967, workers and other supporters took to the streets to demonstrate. Following the example of Chinese mainland's Cultural Revolution, demonstrators held quotations from Mao and shouted slogans of * * * Production Party. Police fired tear gas and wooden bullets to disperse the demonstrators and arrested 127 people.

On May 1967, 1 1, the industrial strike of Xinpu Port Plastic Flower Factory turned into a riot. Workers gathered outside the street of Xinpu Port to confront the police and attacked them with stones and glass bottles. In view of the seriousness of the situation, the authorities announced a curfew in East Kowloon that night and all reserve police officers canceled their leave waiting. In this incident, 100 people were arrested and two people were injured.

1967 May 13, the San Po Kong riots in Kowloon spread to Dongtou Village and To Kwa Wan in Wong Tai Sin. A large number of people gathered in the streets, and mobs set fire to cars and staff quarters in the resettlement area of Wong Tai Sin, and broke into offices and schools in the new district to make trouble. The authorities dispatched a large number of British troops and riot squads to suppress it, and advanced the curfew time to 6 pm. Later, The Beijing Daily said that "the behavior of the British Hong Kong government is racial persecution, and suppressing the masses is a barbaric fascist atrocity" and supported "Hong Kong citizens taking to the streets to resist violence".

1967 On May 15, the Beijing Foreign Ministry protested to the British Chargé d 'affaires and mobilized Beijing people to demonstrate outside the British Chargé d 'affaires in China. Someone even broke into the agent's residence and office that night. Left-wing newspapers in Hong Kong reported the news of Beijing's support, which was distributed to passers-by by by students from left-wing schools in the street. Bank of China also installed a megaphone on the roof of the Central Head Office to carry out revolutionary propaganda.

1967 On May 16, Hong Kong's pro-China leftists announced the establishment of a committee for compatriots from all walks of life in Hong Kong and Kowloon to fight against persecution in Hong Kong and Britain, with Yang Guang, chairman of the FTU, as its director. With the slogan of "anti-British and anti-violence", the Combat Committee immediately joined hundreds of people from various pro-* * groups to hold a demonstration and demonstration quoting Mao's quotations in the Governor's Office, and posted posters outside the Governor's Office. The Governor's Office was once the main target of collective protests and demonstrations. Later, the Hong Kong Government reiterated the need to maintain law and order and limit the number of petitioners to the Government House. The protest then moved to Garden Road and Statue Square in Central. Since then, there have been rallies and demonstrations in Hong Kong and Kowloon. In addition to workers, participants include students and others. Buses, trams, the gas company and the Star Ferry also began to strike regularly.

1967 on may 2 1 day, the riot spread to central and worsened, and the police fired tear gas to suppress it. On the 22nd, the riots in the Central District became more serious, with bloody clashes between demonstrators and police, and 167 people were arrested. Rioting workers and students occupied left-wing newspapers, banks, domestic companies, schools and so on. As their stronghold, they held demonstrations, attacked the police and public transportation that was still running. After the riot police arrived at the scene and dispersed them with tear gas and batons, the demonstrators quickly withdrew to their positions, making the police exhausted. Finally, the authorities imposed a curfew on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, which was the first curfew on Hong Kong Island after the war.

1On July 8, 1967, about 100 mainland militia had a gun battle with the Hong Kong police in Sha Tau Kok, and five Hong Kong police officers died. The People's Daily once again expressed its support for the anti-British and anti-riot remarks of the Hong Kong leftists. There are rumors in Hong Kong that Beijing intends to take back Hong Kong. Later, the leftist movement further escalated, and began to make homemade bombs with cans, make incendiary bombs with soda bottles of Pearl River soda, and attack police stations with water (a mixture of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid) from a height. The laboratory of the left-wing school has become a bomb-making workshop. The riots on June 7 showed signs of worsening after July. On July 1967 and 12, the British Hong Kong government imposed curfews in Hong Kong and Kowloon at the same time, which was the first time since the riots broke out more than two months ago.

From July to August, 1967, the police responded by force and broke into various leftist strongholds.

1On August 4th, 967, the helicopter on the British aircraft carrier sent to Hong Kong landed from the rooftop and attacked the Qiaoguan Building, a leftist stronghold in North Point, at the junction of King's Road and Tangshui Road. Huafeng Chinese products are the home of large enterprises in China. In addition to finding various bomb weapons in the building, the police also found a well-equipped field hospital with an operating room. According to the emergency decree, the police closed a number of left-wing schools and left-wing newspapers that published inflammatory remarks; At the same time, leftists were arrested on a large scale and held in the political department cell in Wu Bai, and some of them were later arrested and deported. The left responded with escalating bombs, placing real and fake bombs in downtown areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon. Most bombs are written in big letters, on trams, buses and streets. The bomb attack not only disturbed people's lives, but also caused people's anxiety and caused innocent casualties. A seven-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother were killed by a homemade bomb wrapped as a gift in North Point. But fake bombs were also found. There were also casualties among the bomb squad, the police and the British army responsible for defusing the bomb.

On August 24th, 1967, Lin Bin was ambushed on his way to work. The murderer disguised himself as a road builder, stopped Lin's car and set fire to Lin and his cousin, who later died in the hospital. Cha Liang Yong, the president of Ming Pao, also received death threats because he explicitly opposed the Cultural Revolution and riots in the newspaper, and once left Hong Kong. The riots also caused economic losses, and some citizens sold their property and left Hong Kong, which led to the first wave of immigration in Hong Kong, which led to a sharp drop in urban building prices.

The stock market crash caused the stock indexes of August 3 1, 1967 to fall to 58.438+0, the lowest closing point in history. On the other hand, during the June 7th riots, many bus routes were forced to suspend service (some of them did not re-operate), which led to the emergence of many nine-seat white-label buses, which were allowed to carry passengers in urban areas. In the end, the colonial government thought that white buses could supplement the traffic shortage of public buses, which led to the legalization of 1969 white buses and became public minibuses with seats today.