COM FOR REGISTRATION
CONFIDENTIAL
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (0.A.G.)
JUL 1967
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31 July, 1967.
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IMMEDIATE
CONFIDENTIAL
No. 1141.
Addressed to Commonwealth Office
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as follows:
My immediately preceding telegram: comment is.
Paragraph 2.
Although bomb disposal teams have only disposed of 57 bombs in this period, inspections of suspected have also taken up much time. For instance on 29 and 30 July there were over 100 suspected bombs (some of them deliberately designed to resemble bombs) which turned out to be false alarms. the army has taken steps to reinforce its bomb disposal teams and a joint bomb operations group has been set up at the Colony Pol/Mil H.Q.
Paragraph 5. Although only minor incidents have occurred at the border the risk is always present that any one of them could have serious repercussions.
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