"A young clerk allowed a tribute to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown to slip into the classified ads page of a newspaper in southwest China, a Hong Kong daily reported on Wednesday.
The tiny ad in the lower right corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News on Monday night, read: "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims".
An investigation was launched by Chinese authorities to find out how the advertisement slipped its way past censors.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said the young woman from the Chengdu Evening News classified section had allowed the ad to be published because she'd never heard of the June 4 crackdown.
References to the massacre are barred in state media, the Internet and printed works, meaning many of China's younger generation are ignorant of the events."
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