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IMMEDIATE
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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
HONG KONG
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15 September 1967
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Telno. 1396
CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed Commonwealth Office telegram No. 1396
of 15 September. Repeated for information to POLAD Singapore, Washington and Canberra.
(4ss)
Sitrep from 111200 to 151200: My telegram No. 1361.
There was a sharp increase in bombing incidents on
11 and 12 September but the number of these has fallen off again. There have been further minor street demonstrations in one of which a Police Officer was attacked and slightly injured. There was a major improvement in the supply of pigs on 13 September. The frontier has been quiet.
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There were 176 bomb reports in the period of which 31 proved genuine. Two Police Officers were injured in one explosion which was probably electrically detonated. An assembly of several hundred students in Kowloon quickly dispersed on arrival of police on 11 September. A group gathered in Western District on the Island to listen to a propaganda broadcast from a CPG vessel and attacked the Police party when it arrived to investigate. The Police opened fire but the main assailants escaped. Police raids have continued and in one union premises evidence of bomb manufacture was found.
3. At Lo Wu on 14 September a party of coolies arrived by boat on the bank below Lo Wu bridge and cut grass and shrubs there. They did not approach too close to our defensive positions in which however they demonstrated interest. There were no altercations At Man Kam To on 11 September subversive slogans were painted within the loading compound near the bridge and on screens erected to shield military positions. Since these are only visible from C.T. or within the loading area they have not been removed as yet. The indications are that this might have been a move designed to create an incident.
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On 10 September a group of 50 people from C.T. landed on Peng Chau Island in Mirs Bay about two miles from C.T. They held a three hour propaganda meeting and left behind a number of inflammatory posters and two bombs one of which was genuine. These have been removed.
5. Nearly 5,000 pigs arrived from China on 14 September 2,000 by road and 2,000 by rail. This is the largest day's import since the end of July and the first substantial rail import since mid-August. It remains to be seen whether this can be kept up, but reports that a number of pigs came from outside Kwangtung indicate that the railway to the North may now be operating effectively.
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