1950 HK Tram dispute

FEB 5 1950, 2-9-1950

 

Hong Kong Police Raise Barricade - A few hours after several thousand Hong Kong Tramway company strikers rioted (Jan. 30) near the Tram Union premises, police set up barricade on Russel St. The area was put under police occupation. Today Chinese Communists broadcast on the Peiping radio that the British were hypocrites and imperialists who oppressed Chinese at the same time they were seeking to establish diplomatic relations with the Communist regime. Hong Kong dispatches have intimated that the disorder was red-fomented in the first place. 1950

 

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