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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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Telegram unnumbered
21 September, 1967
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21 SEP1967
Press Report 210730.
Attention Glover.
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The police arrested twenty-nine people including several girls and a boy following series of bomb throwing incidents and demonstrations in various parts of the Colony last night.
During the incidents, twenty people among them eight policemen, received injuries from explosions caused by bombs thrown by local Communist trouble makers.
The incidents began in the later afternoon when two groups of people demonstrated in the Western district of Hong Kong Island shortly after five o'clock. The demonstrators dispersed when police arrived on the scene. However a boy and two girls were detained for enquiries. Some banners were also seized.
Three hours later a man was arrested as he was placing a bomb outside the Shaukiwan Post Office. This attracted a crowd of about seven hundred onlookers, six of them, including woman, were arrested after refusing to disperse.
While this was going on, a bomb was thrown at a police party investigating a suspected bomb in Johnson Road near Swatow Street. Five policemen were injured. Police fired one shot from a Greener gun at a man suspected of throwing the bomb but he escaped. Two baton shells were also used to break up a crowd which had gathered in the area.
In Kowloon, the incidents began at seven o'clock in the evening when a crowd of about four hundred demonstrated in Shanghai Street at its junction with Dundas Street. When the crowd failed to disperse police fired one round of tear gas to break them up. The police party was then attacked with two bombs and were forced to fire two rounds of carbine.
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Shortly afterwards another police party came under attack from a second crowd of one hundred and fifty people in Shanghai Street near Argyle Street. The crowd threw stones and other objects one was a bomb which failed to explode at the police who fired off two rounds of gas and one wooden projectile to break up the trouble makers. Sixteen people were arrested in
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