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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
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11 September, 1967.
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Attention Glover.
Train services were disrupted for three and a half hours yesterday evening when three suspected bombs were found placed near the railway tracks at the northern portal of Beacon Hill Tunnel between Shatin and Yaumati in Kowloon. On examination, one of them turned out to be a genuine bomb and was subsequently detonated. Railway traffic soon returned
to normal.
detonated.
During the day, a total of six bombs were found and
At nine-thirty yesterday morning, fifty people demonstrated in Jordan Road, Kowloon. They shouted slogans and distributed inflammatory pamphlets. The crowd dispersed on the arrival of police. No arrest was made and no tear gas was used.
At nine o'clock last night, two men were arrested in Des Voeux Road, West, on Hong Kong Island. They were amongst a group of forty to fifty people seen marching in the street. Inflammatory posters were found on them when searched. will be charged with joining in an unlawful assembly.
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