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UNCLASSIFIED
PRESS
(D.T.D.)
5 September, 1967
050945 Attention Glover.
Just before nine p.m. yesterday Monday, what appeared to be a black powder bomb, inserted through a pavement level grill, exploded in basement of South China Morning Post Wyndham Street.
No repeat no damage or casualties were caused.
A second similar bomb of which fuse had burnt out was then found
nearby.
It was removed by an Army expert and later sandbagged and detonated again without damage at end of On Lan Street.
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