On the evening of December 10, 1979, while the government of the Republic of China was preoccupied with the opening of the fourth session of the 11th Central Committee of the ruling party, the Kuomintang of China, a few hundred yelling youths beat up unarmed police with heavy clubs and steel bars at the southern port city of Kaohsiung under the instigation of the Formosa magazine.
透過大眾傳播工具，大家紛紛發抒珍惜安定、痛恨暴力以及盼望政府治安當局從速對暴行分子嚴加懲處的心意：然後以冷靜穩定的態度，靜待政府依法處理。