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The 1967 riots and the making of ‘Hongkongers’ – a police officer’s account Book excerpt © SCMP Demonstrators wave Mao Zedong‘s “little red book” in front of Government House, on May 18, 1967. Photo: SCMP On the 3rd December 1966, the main story on the front page of the South China Morning Post was the talks on the cruiser HMS Tiger between the United Kingdom s Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and Ian Smith, the leader of Rhodesia, over the future of that colony. The front page also carried a sidebar headed, Macau Leftists Resume Demonstrations . That article described a noisy and sometimes violent demonstration at a read in of the quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong, the leader of the People s Republic of China, at Government House in Macau.

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