the late evening a bus and a tram in Western District were attacked by a stone-throwing crowd. Six people were hurt during the course of this incident but the attackers dispersed quickly when the police arrived. Early on 8th August a bomb was thrown at a tram causing damage and hurting one passenger. One man was arrested for complicity. That night another crowd collected in Western District. Two trams were stoned. The police were forced to fire and a number of rioters are believed to have been hit. They were dragged away however but ten arrests were made. The broadcasting of inflammatory messages from a C.P.G.-owned vessel lying at China Merchants Steam Navigation wharf in Western District and the use of a nearby Communist-owned godown as a rallying point for rioters are behind these renewed outbreaks in Western District.
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There is still only one train per day from Canton.
Police raids have continued. A major operation was mounted with military support on 4th August against two multi-storey buildings in North Point on the island. The se housed a number of union premises which it was thought were being used as refuges, as well as the Wah Fung emporium, the focal point of troubles in that area in the first fortnight in July. Of the twenty six arrested three held important positions in local Communist circles. No resistance was offered though preparations including booby traps and the electrification of grilles had been made. A notable point was the discovery of a well equipped small hospital in one building. For the first time helicopters were used by the police and military in this raid. There have been thirteen other raids during which seven addresses were visited to arrest proprietors, editors and publishers of three smaller pro-Communist papers of whom five out of six were arrested.
6. On the border isolated stone-throwing incidents continue. At Stk on 7th August a dummy bomb was hung from a lamp post. Attempts to deal with it were hampered by stone-throwing civilians until in the end the C.C.A. took some steps to prevent this. There was another incident at Man Kam To on which I will report separately.
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