- Title: HONG KONG: EXPELLED INDONESIAN DIPLOMATS CROSS BORDER FROM CHINA
- Date: 2nd May 1967
- Summary: 1. LV DIPLOMATS ARRIVE AT BORDER 0.02 2. MV NEWSMEN AND CAMERAMEN TOWARD THE DIPLOMATS 0.09 3. MLV PRESS ATTACHE SOSROHARDJONO (FELT HAT) SUTADISASTRA (MALAY SONGKOK) AND THEIR FAMILIES 0.14 4. CU LUGGAGE CARRIED AWAY 0.20 5. MCU SOSROHARDJONO PAN TO SUTADISASTRA AND FAMILY WALKING 0.41 6. MLV PARTY ENTERS RAILWAY STATION 0.44 7. CU SIGN "LO WU STATION" TILT DOWN ENTRANCE 0.49 8. MV TWO DIPLOMATS, FOLLOWED BY NEWSMEN 0.50 9. MCU SUTADISASTRA 0.51 10. MV TRAIN CARRYING DIPLOMATS TO KOWLOON 0.54 11. CU SUTADISASTRA SHOWS PARTLY TORN ANTI-INDONESIAN SLOGANS PASTED ON BRIEF CASE 0.56 12. CU SING "KOWLOON" 0.59 13. MV - NEWSMEN AND CAMERAMEN WAIT AT STATION 1.01 14. MCU TWO DIPLOMATS INTERVIEWED BY REPORTERS 1.04 15. CU MRS SUTADISASTRA 1.07 16. MCU SUTADISASTRA ENTERS CAR 1.12 Initials TS/VS/MR/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 17th May 1967 13:00
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- Location: HONG KONG
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- Country: Hong Kong
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- Story Text: THE INDONESIAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRS IN PEKING, BARON SUTADISASTRA, AND THE PRESS ATTACHE, SOEMARNO SOSROHARDJONO, ARRIVED AT THE HONG KONG CHINA BORDER ON SUNDAY (30 MARCH) AFTER BEING DECLARED PERSONAE NON GRATA BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. THEY WERE EXPELLED FOR HAVING "CONDUCTED ALL KINDS OF ACTIVITIES UNDERMINING SINO-INDONESIAN RELATIONS".
ON FRIDAY THE TWO DIPLOMATS WERE ORDERED TO LEAVE CHINA WITHINSEVEN DAYS. EARLIER MR. SUTADISASTRA TOLD CORRESPONDENTS THAT HE WAS SENDING THE FAMILIES OF THE OTHER NINE DIPLOMATS HOME, AFTER THREE DAYS OF ANTI-INDONESIAN DEMONSTRATIONS IN PEKING, PROTESTING AGAINST INDONESIAN TREATMENT OF OVERSEAS CHINESE.
ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE HONG KONG BORDER, THE DIPLOMATS HURRIED ABOARD A TRAIN FOR KOWLOON.
MR. SUTADISASTRA TOLD REPORTERS THAT HE WAS DRAGGED FROM HIS HOTEL ROOM IN CANTON TO BE INSULTED BY CHINESE DEMONSTRATORS, AND HE SAID THAT THE CHINESE HAD STAGED ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THEM AS THEY CROSSED THE BORDER INTO HONG KONG.
LOOKING TIRED, BUT IN GOOD SPIRITS, THEY SHOWED REPORTERS PARTLY TORN ANTI-INDONESIAN SLOGANS, SAID TO HAVE BEEN PASTED ON THEIR BRIEF CASES BY DEMONSTRATORS.
THE TWO DIPLOMATS AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO DJAKARTA.
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