 59 people were killed and 740 had been arrested, mainly for rioting and looting.Conservative rural leaders, business elites, film production companies including the Shaw Brothers and Cathay Studios and the media, including Chinese newspapers "Sing Tao Daily", "Wah Kiu Yat Po" and "Kung Sheung Daily News" and English newspaper "South China Morning Post", also largely supported the British colonial government or the Kuomintang government in Taiwan until the 1980s.They joined hand in condemning the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist riots instigated by the pro-Communist elements in the colony.