Hong Kong campus holdouts desperately seek escape routes

HONG KONG • Anti-government protesters holed up in a Hong Kong university were frantically searching for escape routes yesterday after more than two days of clashes with police, dramatic breakouts by rope and motorcycles, and more than 1,000 arrests in 24 hours.

Mrs Lam spoke shortly after the city's new police chief urged the support of all citizens to end more than five months of unrest triggered by fears that China's central government is stifling the city's special autonomy and freedoms, including its independent judiciary.

Hundreds of protesters fled from the Polytechnic University or surrendered overnight and on Monday amid running battles on nearby streets where protesters threw petrol bombs and rocks at police. The university is the last of five that protesters occupied to use as bases from which to disrupt the city, blocking the Cross-Harbour Tunnel outside and other main roads.

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