<P> On 12 May 1955, later known as, a major riot involving an estimated 2,000 people broke out in the streets of Alexandra Road and Tiong Bahru . The police tried to break up the 2,000 students and strikers using tear gas . Four people died as a result, including Andrew Teo, a Constable with the Volunteer Special Constabulary, who was severely beaten by a mob, Yuen Yau Phang, another Chinese police officer who was allegedly burned to death in his car, Gene D. Symonds, an American press correspondent also beaten by the mob and Chong Lon Chong, a sixteen - year - old student whose death caught the most attention . </P> <P> A 16 - year - old student, Chong Lon Chong, died from a gunshot wound . In an initial Straits Times report, the student was shot one mile away from a hospital, but was paraded around for two and half - hours by the students to further arouse the crowd's emotion without sending him for medical treatment . The press, including the vernacular press and the English medium Straits Times, however later reported that it was revealed that the coroner stated in the lawyer's brief to Chong's mother that it was inconclusive as to whether the boy was dead or alive when he was shot . Furthermore, it was also established after the trial that the four men who were arrested were not students . </P> <P> While the Hock Lee incident has conventionally been portrayed be one of communist subversion, other sources suggest that the students and workers' involvements in the Hock Lee incident were also due to anxieties felt by these two groups as a result of the conditions of colonial society . The Hock Lee bus workers' strikes can also be seen as one of the catalysts for the modernisation of the bus transportation industry in Singapore . The Hock Lee workers' strikes as well as other similar transportation workers' strikes resulted in the nationalisation of the Singapore transportation industry, specifically the Chinese owned bus companies . Shortly after the Hock Lee workers' strikes, the Singapore Traction Company strikes occurred which motivated the Hawkins Report of 1956 . The Hawkins Report called for the reformation of the transportation industry in Singapore through a consolidation of the Chinese bus companies . The Hawkins report advocated for a single entity to control transportation . The report was an evident reaction to the operational challenges, poor administration and labour discontent that was evident in many of the bus companies . In 1970, RP Wilson was appointed to look into the reorganisation of public transportation in Singapore which resulted in the establishment of the government - led Singapore Transport Advisory Board in 1970, which sought to not only nationalise the bus companies but also to create a more efficient transportation system . To many of the workers, these strikes helped them to gain a' Singaporean' consciousness outside of colonialism . The strikes and the workers' sentiments however were quickly put out . Part of Singapore's modernisation project was to expand its tourism sector and an efficient transportation system was important for this growth . This did not leave room for any form of activism that would disrupt Singapore's necessary path towards modernity and economic development . </P> <P> Media interest in the event has sparked off some public debate . The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's television series, Diary of A Nation, produced in 1988 covers the Hock Lee event in episode ten of its documentary offering . The Hock Lee incident has also been represented in Channel News Asia's documentary feature on violence and communism in the 1950s in Singapore, Days of Rage . A reaction to the film was published in the form of a three - part critique named, "Hock Lee bus riots--fact or fiction by CNA?" by The Online Citizen . </P>

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