There was no issue of the newspaper on Jan 13, 1967 on account of Id-ul-Fitr. The following extract and image are from the previous day’s issue.
PEKING: The agitation which reigned here all day yesterday [Jan 10] was considerably reduced today. Parades of orderly demonstrators continued, but whereas yesterday each one grouped thousands of persons today’s marches grouped only hundreds.
The centre of attraction appeared to be Communist Party Central Committee headquarters, the theoretical residence of President Liu Shao-chi and all the nation’s other top leaders. A vast, apparently calm crowd waited outside the building’s main entrance in 14 degree Fahrenheit cold. Mr Liu, party Secretary-General Teng Hsiao-ping and Propaganda chief Tao Chu were once again the villains in a new batch of Red Guard slogans appearing today.
Two fresh posters attracted special attention today. One announces that Madame Chiang Ching, the wife of Mao Tse-tung, insisted in two recent speeches that most of the Government’s Deputy Ministers, notably Deputy Finance Minister Li Chien-nien, had in fact committed some errors, but it would be an exaggeration to call them anti-revolutionary.
The poster adds no commentary on Madame Chiang’s stand — neither praise nor blame.
Wall posters in recent days have criticised Premier Chou Enlai for similar pronouncements stating in particular: “You are trying to protest with all your prestige a gang of economists who favour revisionist theories.” The “Yomiuri Shimbun” correspondent reported from Peking this afternoon that the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung appears to have returned to Peking after an absence of 40 or 50 days.
Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2017
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