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THE DISTURBANCES
Kong and said that they stood for a while in the car park near the Government and t Publications bookstall at the Star Ferry, then lined up and marched along the Gover waterfront, then via Wyndham Street to Upper Albert Road returning by Pottinger at ab Street to Des Voeux Central, along the tram tracks and to the waterfront near Plate the Sham Shui Po Ferry. There, they crossed again to Kowloon, where they were have met by police who told them they could stage no demonstration. The youths the a replied that they merely intended to go home, so they were allowed to go through on fo singly and in twos, but they joined up again at the junction of Peiho Street and were Cheung Sha Wan Road and then turned down Lai Chi Kok Road to Nathan Road the si 135. Mr. McNUTT, the Divisional Superintendent Sham Shui Po, told us how the ci he had proceeded to the Sham Shui Po Ferry with one of his platoons on instruc. were tions from Headquarters and met a group of youths disembarking from the ferry at th shortly after 9 p.m. He spoke to a youth in a singlet with characters written on it of the opposing the ferry fare increase and was told that he lived on Hong Kong side and ing t shatt had come over to Kowloon to demonstrate. Mr. MCNUTT advised him to return to Hong Kong and he agreed to do so returning to the ferry pier, accompanied by appe: five or six youths.
136. This conversation quickly attracted the attention of about 100 by-standers, amongst whom Mr. McNUTT noticed two youths carrying furled banners. On inquiry, they said that they had been demonstrating in Hong Kong and were now returning to their homes in Kowloon. After being warned not to hold demonstra tions and being allowed to proceed, they walked up Peiho Street towards Lai Chi Kok Road, followed by some of the crowd and were lost to view.
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WILI reticent about what had brought them together and would give no information on this to the reporter. They moved south along Nathan Road, now about 300 get ‹ inter strong, and near the Bank of the Netherlands, close to the junction of Gascoigne Road, they met another large group coming up from the south. The confluence of these groups seems to have given rise to much excitment. The reporter speaks of a lot of noise, yelling and so on. He speaks of police being there, having apparently just arrived as he saw them getting out of their trucks. But, before taking up the narrative from their point of view, let us look at the scene in this area as seen by a press photographer and another reporter.
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138. Situation in Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei between 10 and 11 p.m. We had some very cogent evidence from a press photographer, who said that there was no hostility from the crowd towards photographers when he took photographs at about ten o'clock, although hostility developed later. He took the photographs riote shown as Plates 13, 14, 15 and 17 and also identified for us Plate 16, although bam that was taken by another photographer. Of these photographs, the first three were taken in Nathan Road, just south of Waterloo Road, near the Astor cinema up
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