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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
Telegram Unnumbered
28 August, 1967
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281830 Attention Glover.
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RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63 29 ruunoi
HWB1/17
An ammunition expert of Royal Army Ordnance Corps was fatally injured this Monday afternoon when he tried to dismantle a Communist planted bomb on a hilltop which turned out to be a booby trap.
He had been sent to the top of Lion Rock in Kowloon to dismantle five boards with Chinese characters and three flags connected by a a wire. Whilst taking down contraption there was an explosion and the ammunition expert, a sergeant was thrown two (repeat two) hundred feet down a cliff..
In an effort to save his life, a doctor from British Military Hospital was airlifted by helicopter to hilltop to give him treatment on the spot.
He died before arrival of Mountain Rescue team.
At noon police found in a rubbish dump two (repeat two) baskets containing weapons similar to those found in recent police raids on Union and other Communist occupied premises.
The weapons comprise seventy-one (repeat seventy- one) knives and three hundred and three (repeat three zero three) choppers. They were found by caretaker of a building in Quarry Bay. More informs.
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