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HONG KONG
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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (DTD)
Telegram No. Unnumbered
21 August, 1967
UNCLASSIFIED
Press Report.
212130 Sitrep.
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Attention Glover.
Commissioner of Mines Mr. R.M. Hetherington HWA 1/10 announced today that stocks of explosives in licensed private stores had been transferred to Government depots over weekend.
This security action follows the theft of explosives from two private stores and because terrorists have continued to plant bombs in public places.
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Removal of explosives from eighty-eight repeat eighty- eight stores were jointly carried out by officers of the Mines Department, Police, Marine Department and Civil Aid services.
Arrangements are being made for the issue of controlled quantities of explosives to operators of mines and quarries and to contractors.
Meanwhile police are offering a reward of twenty-five repeated twenty-five thousand Hong Kong dollars for information leading to arrest and conviction of any person responsible for bomb explosion in North Point yesterday evening.
An eight repeat eight) year old girl and her two (repeat two) year old brother were killed in the explosion.
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In Kowloon early this morning two boys and two girls ranging in age from sixteen to eighteen were arrested outside Alhambra Building in Nathan Road.
A bomb was found on one of the boys.
The youths will be charged under a provision of Emergency Regulations which provides for a maximum sentence of ten (repeat ten) years imprisonment.
Bomb was later detonated by a ballistics officer.
Five (repeat five) people who are either directors,
Prosecution
editors or publishers of three (repeat three) Communist newspapers reappeared in Central Court this afternoon facing thirty (repeat thirty) charges including sedition. applied for a nolle prosequi in respect of charges of publishing false news against three (repeat three) of defendants.
O.A.G.
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Sent. 1655 21 August Recd 1558Z 21 August
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