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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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26 August, 196
ARCHIVES No. 63
29 AUG 1967
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Attention Glover. Sitrep 1. Border areas were reported quiet last night following a number of isolated minor incidents during the day.
In view of improved situation at Man Kam To yesterday the road bridge was reopened to enable farmers. witi. fields in Hong Kong territory to carry on their normal activities.
The reopening also makes possible the resumption of food shipments across the bridge.
In the morning a minor incident occurred when a group of men from Chinese side tampered with the wire barricades at Hong Kong end of bridge.
But large number of Chinese Communist soldiers present appeared to have situation under control and there was no (repeat no) repetition of previous day's assault.
At Lowu over fifty farmers crossed into Hong Kong in the afternoon to work their paddy fields.
In the evening two unidentified explosive devices were thrown from Lowu bridge. The first one, which was believed to have come from a group of seven men who were lying in concealed position at Hong Kong end of bridge, made a hole in the roof of the Immigration Office.
No (repeat no) one was injured and there was very little damage.
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Several minutes later the second device was thrown. one landed among some bushes on the river bank on Chinese side from where it was believed to have been thrown.
A Gurkha soldier who saw several men about to throw another device from the concealed position on the bridge flushed them out with a smoke grenade.
The men returned to Chinese territory. One of them appeared to be hurt and was assisted by his companions.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Eates, said last night that the current campaign by Communist terrorists in Hong Kong did not present a threat to security of colony.
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