Talk:1967 Hong Kong riots

message: :A home-made bomb during the riot. On top of it are words in Chinese characters, meaning "Fry the Yellow Dog", "Roast the White Pig", "Fellow Countrymen stay clear"
At the risk of being too graphic, is it possible that the actual translation of the verb in the former should be "Fry Alive". Likewise, is it preferrable, it seems to omit the word "skinned" (e.g. white-skinned) in the two phrases? --Dpr 17:03, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
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message: Star Ferry toll increase caused riots in Kowloon in April 1966. That event had not direct relationship with the riots in 67.  24.205.90.226 02:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: This article is very poorly written.  Someone should edit this page into readable prose. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.189.130.57 (talk • contribs) 
:Then rewrite it, if I had a dime for everytime someone said to change something. Users ignore these pages.  If you would stop vandalizing (see users talk page), and actually contribute, then the problem with this page would be solved.Travb 04:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: The following section was removed from the article due to vagueness and difficulty of finding sources for.
::In response the police fought back and raided leftists strongholds. In one of the raids, helicopters from HMS Hermes a Royal Navy carrier were called in to land police on the roof of a 20-plus-storey building. Upon entering the building the police discovered bombs and weapons as well as a leftist hospital complete with dispensary and an operating theatre. 
If someone has better sources for it, please put it back.  Benjwong (talk) 07:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: I have reverted the page move executed today. I am aware that there may be a concern as to the title's neutrality, but this is the English name by which the riots are commonly known in Hong Kong. "67 riots" may be an appropriate name in Cantonese, but the name is wholly ambiguous and inappropriate to En:WP. Ohconfucius (talk) 09:16, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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message: There is a mention of the riots in the Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks documentary in the section on Shaw Brothers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim Chuma Melbourne (talk • contribs) 06:42, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
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message: This page does indeed seem somewhat skewed, but it's difficult if not impossible to produce a 'neutral' view of the period; whatever is written someone is likely to change it. Concurrent news reports at the time were heavily biased, with contradictory versions of the same story, depending on the ownership of the paper.
As an example, the page mentions the Portugese Army's involvement in Macau but - very strangely - makes no mention at all of the presence and engagement of the British Army. The Army had some engagement in Kowloon (I wasn't involved) but I was with the Ghurkas when we deployed in strength on the border in response to the incursion of 8 July by 'militia' from China. Whether these were militia, or angry locals, or the PLA, or the PLA disguised as militia was hotly disputed at the time and has been argued since, including in biographies of Chairman Mao.
Our concern on the ground was (a) whether the incursion was a deliberate provocation by Peking (as it was called then) or locals out of control (only slightly less worrying) and (b) how the UK Government might respond. Would we be at war?
The Ghurkas were supported by my own battery of guns from Britain's 18 Field Regiment, with the remainder of the regiment also deployed. A minuscule force of course, given the scale of the Chinese Army available within a day's march of the border!
Quite separately, a platoon of Ghurkas deployed into Kowloon on at least one occasion in support of the Hong Kong Police and the one British Army battalion stationed in Kowloon. There were (possibly apochryphal) reports that the Ghurkas dismounted, formed ranks and drew their Kukris, at which sight the rioters, who had defied both police and regular army, dispersed with some haste. It's well known that HK Police official records were subsequently bowdlerised, with a later correction whose completeness and accuracy is disputed.
Not sure whether - and if so, how - to add the Army role into the existing article. Also, although I was there throughout, my own direct knowledge is limited.
Pace the Little Red Book (of which everyone acquired copies), I've also failed to track down the date (missing from US Navy reports) of when USS Enterprise appeared, dwarfing everything else in the harbour, greeted by the Peking-facing press with a reference from the Book: "The USS Enterprise is a paper tiger".
I wonder whether the cleanest line for Wikipedia might be to have a 'simple summary' page, with links to a page or pages of 'personal perspectives'?Horace100 (talk) 14:31, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
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