COPY FOR REGISTRATION
SECRET
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
(The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (0.A.G.)
Cypher
IMMEDIATE
SECRET
No. 1208
D. 11 August, 1967. R. 11
0725Z
113
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Addressed to Commonwealth Office.
"Peking, No. 507.
Repeated
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"POLAD Singapore, No. 298.
" Washington, No. 254 and
"Canberra, No. 73.
(Please pass PRIORITY to Peking
and ROUTINE to others).
The principal features of the Communist confrontation over the past week have been:-
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BARA
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(a) The continuation of bomb incidents, the majority
in public places. Forty-nine such cases occurred between the 4th and 9th August a sharp decline over the figures for the previous week, Several people have suffered minor injuries, including two Army personnel who were members of bomb disposal units. A large number of false reports continued to be received, some of which were deliberate hoaxes. Sporadic minor outbreaks of violence have occurred during the week in both Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, At least one of these was caused by a crowd which had gathered to listen to broadcasts from a C.P.G. vessel moored alongside a pier:
(b)
An incident on 5 August at Man Kam To on the British side of the border, during which a sub- machine gun and a rifle were seized from Police and Army personnel by peasants from the Chinese side of the border. A statement concerning the posting of non-inflammatory sheets was signed before the guns were returned (my telegrams Nos. 1171 and 1172 refer). Since this incident the border has been quiet, apart from minor stone- throwing incidents and daily broadcasts of propaganda from Chinese territory. Posters, including seven that were inflammatory, were put up at Man Kam To by people from Chinese territory on 9 August - the inflammatory ones were removed on the night of 9th so far without repercussions;
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