HONG KONG—In the run-up to Sunday’s fiery confrontation that erupted at a Hong Kong university, the city’s youthful pro-democracy protesters occupied several campuses and spent days amassing an arsenal: thousands of firebombs, bricks, bows and arrows, slingshots and catapults. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the scene of clashes between students and police earlier in the week, protesters stockpiled bricks and thousands of Molotov cocktails, stored in boxes under the shade of umbrellas. A day after forcing police to...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 18, 2019 00:00 UTC