Page 10 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1979
the world
Chinese Britain enraged over statesman’s murdetr
. ■ ■_ United Press International diers added another page to the mer residence southeast of Rome, Northern Ireland Tuesday “evil and government “will spare no effort to tards, ’ echoed the Dailv
protest
hostility
United Press International
PEKING — Some 200 Chinese
men, women and children, many of
them raggedly dressed, began a
sit-in Tuesday in front of the offices
of China’s Cabinet, protesting al
legedly hostile treatment by
provincial officials.
The demonstration took place on
Changan Boulevard, Peking’s main
street, half a mile from the Great
Hall of the People where U.S. Vice
President Walter Mondale was
meeting with Chinese Premier Hua
Guofeng.
Urged on by cheerleaders, the
demonstrators shouted slogans and
waved their right fists clenched in
the communist salute.
“They come from all over Chi
na, ”a police official at the scene told
reporters.
Reporters who tried to take pic
tures were at first ordered away by
police. But photos were permitted
later.
Police at one point promised an
interview with leaders of the group,
but later told correspondents it was
not possible.
A police spokesman said the
demonstrators were from various
Chinese provinces outside Peking.
He said they were protesting hostile
treatment by officials in their home
About 300 protesters from north
east China and Inner Mongolia
staged a similar sit-in Aug. 8 and 9.
They said they had come to Peking
to protest the refusal of local officials
to redress wrongs they suffered.
Police made no effort to break up
Tuesday’s demonstration.
The scene of the sit-in was the
Tsungnanhai Gate of Peking’s For
bidden City, the former residence
of Chinese emperors.
Irish kill
18 more
soldiers
United Press International
WARRENPOINT, Northern Ire
land — The outlawed IRA, in its
heaviest single blow against the
British Army in a decade of strife,
ambushed two patrols with land
mines and killed 18 soldiers in what
was immediately dubbed the “Nar
row Water massacre.”
Monday’s incident at the eastern
end of the border with the Irish Re
public raised to 319 the number of
British troops killed since they went
into the province in force in August
1969.
Five wounded soldiers were on
the critical list and there was an un
explained body on the Irish Repub
lic side of the frontier, 200 yards
across a narrow inlet of Warrenpoint
Lough, known as Narrow Water,
where the ambush took place.
The IRA, fighting to drive British
forces from the province and unite it
with the republic, claimed it set the
ambush with a 1,000-pound land
mine hidden in a parked hay wagon.
The device, apparently exploded
by remote control, went off as a
truckload of troops passed it. The
British army said six soldiers were
killed instantly and two fatally
wounded.
As army reinforcements rushed in
by jeep and helicopter a second de
vice, apparently hidden in a nearby
farm building, also went off and ac
counted for the remainder of the
casualties, the army said.
The army said the survivors im
mediately came under sniper fire
from across the inlet and they re
sponded. However, there was no
independent confirmation of the
gun battle — or official explanation
of the body with gunshot wounds on
the republic side of the border.
Authorities later identified the
victim as 29-year-old Michael Hud
son, the son of one of Queen
Elizabeth’s coachmen at Buckin
gham Palace. He was on a fishing
holiday in the area.
"It was a coldly calculated, caucus
massacre,” said a senior British offi
cer in Northern Ireland. “We may
have lost up to a score of young sol
diers tonignt. They didn’t stand a
chance.”
In addition to being the IRA’s
heaviest blow against British troops
in a decade, the “Narrow Water
massacre” took the heaviest toll of
any single Ulster incident since
1969.
The previous highest toll was 15
Roman Catholics killed when pro-
British loyalists blew up McGuirk’s
bar in Belfast in December 1971, at
the height of the three-way strife
between the loyalists, the IRA and
the British army.
United Press International
LONDON — The Irish Republi
can Army murder of Lord
Mountbatten, one of the heroes of
modem British history, enraged his
nation like no other terrorist attack
during the past decade of violence
and strife associated with Britain’s
presence in Northern Ireland.
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher said Mountbatten’s mur
der and the killing of 18 British sol
diers added another page
IRA’s “catalogue of atrocity and
cowardice” and vowed that Britain
“will wage war against terrorism
with relentless determination until
it is won.”
Pope John Paul II sent condo
lences to Queen Elizabeth II, con
demning the assassination as “a
tragic murder” and “an insult to
human dignity.”
From his Castel Gandolfo sum-
the pontiff praised Mountbatten as
“a courageous man whose death
causes great suffering to the royal
family and to all the nation.
“This act of shocking violence is
an insult to human dignity and I
firmly condemn it,” the pope said.
Cardinal Basil Hume, archbishop
of Westminster, called
Mountbatten’s murder and the am
bush of a British army patrol in
Tuesday
criminal” acts.
“No claim to patriotism or politi
cal ideas can justify murder by self-
appointed killers. The Catholic
community in England and Wales
mourns (Mountbatten’s) cruel
death, those of his companions, and
the loss of so many young lives in
the County Down ambush,” the
cardinal said.
Thatcher said her Conservative
government will spare
ensure that those responsible for
these and all other acts of terrorism
are brought to justice. ”
But the headlines in London
newspapers offered perhaps the
truest measure of the nations’ bit
terness and rage over the death of
one of England’s most beloved
soldier-statesmen.
“These Evil Bastards,” bannered
the Daily Express. “Murdering Bas-
A front-page editorial in ti
press went on to say that “a;;
the cowardly psychopath
killed him believe that the bio
their hands will change Brits
icy toward Ireland. In this 4e
mistaken. ”
“To hear the IRA boasting|
his murder is to witness th
sickness of their campaign
lence, ’ said the Daily Star
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