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of Wing Sing Lane and Nathan Road and the other part the Waterloo Road they junction. By getting hold of one or two drivers, who were standing on the pave roof ment near their buses, he was able to get some of the buses which had been stre abandoned to move out of the area along Waterloo Road.
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146. Meanwhile, Mr. DUNNING, who had been the first to arrive with his Headquarter company in response to Mr. Rose's earlier request for assistance, had been having a difficult time. At about 10.30 p.m. he moved out from the
nois Kowloon Headquarters in his command vehicle, followed by platoons Nos. 1, 2
plat and 3 in lorries. He found the south-bound traffic in Nathan Road stationary by now and he had to weave around it to move south. As he moved past Waterloo Road, the vehicles were stoned and when he got near to the junction of Nathan and Gascoigne Roads, his vehicle was moving so slowly and the crowd was so dense that they were able to break windows in the vehicles with stones held in their hands. Nathan Road, at this point, was virtually blocked solid by a mob, stationary buses and a few cars. He debussed his company which, at this time, consisted only of Nos. 1 and 2 platoons, as No. 3 platoon had been stopped further north by Mr. Rose. As the other platoons alighted, they were bombarded by bricks, stones and rubbish and as there was not sufficient room to form up, Mr. DUNNING directed officers individually to fire tear smoke so as to make the crowd withdraw, which they eventually did, thus enabling him to draw up his two platoons, facing in opposite directions north and south. He spent the next twenty minutes clearing the area of Public Square Street, Gascoigne Road and Nathan Road by the use of tear smoke. Although the members of the crowd continued throwing stones from side streets, he was able to get some of the stationary traffic to turn and go along Gascoigne Road but met with difficulties because a number of the buses had been abandoned by their drivers.
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147. Meanwhile the Yau Ma Tei company which had returned to its station after dispersing the crowd near the Public Square Street/Nathan Road junction now came back into the picture, having been ordered at 10.43 p.m. to return to Nathan Road to assist Headquarter company. It moved out to the junction of Nathan Road and Public Square Street taking over the junction and then moved north behind the platoon of the Headquarter company, taking over road junctions as
pi it went and spreading up as far as Argyle Street. When Mr. SHAVE with the Police Training Contingent company arrived at the junction of Gascoigne and
in: Nathan Roads just before 11 p.m., the action of the Headquarter and Yau Ma Tei companies in Nathan Road had had some effect and Nathan Road itself was reasonably clear, although there were crowds to the south of the Gascoigne Road junction and stones were coming from the side streets on the west of Nathan Road.
148. Mr. SHAVE said he found men from Headquarter company blocking side streets on the western side of Nathan Road and he deployed the first platoon of his own company into Wing Sing Lane on the western side of Nathan Road, where
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