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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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26 August 1967
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63
29 AUG1967
415
261400 Attention Glover.
Man Kambridge which was re-opened yesterday Friday afternoon, was scene of peaceful commerce this morning.
By 10 a.m. some fifty people had crossed bridge into Hong Kong territory.
Some of them were farmers with buffaloes who are now working in fields on Hong Kong side. Others were workers who are loading vegetables brought in from China on to fleet of some thirty (repeat thirty) lorries that have arrived at bridge from new territories market town of Sheung Shui.
Later in morning pigs began to arrive across bridge from China. Exact number is not (repeat not) yet known.
Military activity on Chinese side of bridge appeared to be
normal.
About twenty-five (repeat twenty-five) workers who crossed Man Kam To bridge into Hong Kong territory this morning are now working their fields near Lowu.
End informs.
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Sent 0730Z/26 August
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