Tokyo, October 21: For the first time since the reported arrest of the four Shanghai radicals for their attempted coup, large-scale demonstrations criticising the group were held in the streets of Peking to-day, according to reports reaching here from the Chinese capital.Thousands of soldiers, students, and ordinary citizens took part in the demonstrations carrying banners calling for the overthrow of the four — Mao’s widow Chiang Ching, Wang Hung-wen, Chang Chun-Chiao and Yao Wen Yuan — for their anti-party and anti-revolutionary criminal acts.Thousands of demonstrators paraded through the streets of Tien An Men shouting slogans and waving small flags with many carrying banners hailing the great victory won in smashing the anti revolutionary plot of the four radicals and expressing strong support for the appointment of Premier Hua Kuo-Feng as party Chairman and Chairman of the Military Commission. They also carried paper flags calling for the overthrow of Chiang Ching.
The demonstrations against the four in Peking follow reports of the large-scale demonstrations, attacking them, which have been taking place for the past several days.Meanwhile, 25 pictures taken at the time of the memorial services for Mao Tse-Tung were removed from the notice board in front of the People’s Daily office in Peking last night, according to another report from there. Published - October 22, 2026 12:36 am IST