PEKING: Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, First ViceChairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Premier of the State Council, delivered the memorial speech at the memorial meeting held here this afternoon [Sept 18] for Chairman Mao Tsetung. Mr Hua Kuo-feng said: ... Today, representatives of the Party, Government and Army organisations, workers, peasants, soldiers and other circles are here at Tiananmen Square holding a solemn mass memorial meeting and along with the people of all nationalities throughout the country mourning with the most profound sorrow Chairman Mao Tsetung, our .
beloved greatleader and the great teacher of the international proletariat and the oppressed nations and ... people.
A great proletarian revolutionary like Chairman Mao, who weathers all kinds of revolutionary storms, overcomes every .
hardship, and ... identifies himself with the workers, peasants and other labouring people and stands in the [vanguard] of the revolutionary movement to guide it ... is rare indeed in the annals ofthe proletarianrevolutionary movement. The magnificent contributions Chairman Mao made ... are immortal.