Liu Shao-chi dismissed
Red Guard posters in Peking said to-day [February 19] that China’s President Liu Shao-chi had been stripped of all his Communist Party posts the Peking correspondent of the Tanjug news agency reported to-day [February 19] — but he added that the source must be taken “with a grain of salt.” President Liu was a Party Vice-Chairman, a member of the Polit-bureau and a member of the Permanent Committee of the Polit bureau. Three Chinese Army divisions have been sent in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to support Maoist revolutionary rebels, it was reported in Hongkong. A broadcast from Lhasa yesterday [February 18] monitored by All India Radio in Simla said the troops had been sent to crush the enemies of China’s Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung. A Tibet radio broadcast quoted an official of the Lhasa rebel revolutionary headquarters as saying that a handful of party officials taking the “capitalist road” were engaged in a desperate struggle.
