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SET OUR MAN FREE CHINA IS TOLD
BRITAIN yesterday called upon China to release Hong Kong police superintendent Frank Knight, who was abducted into China at the weekend.
Inspector Knight, a 38- year-old bachelor, comes from Dagenham, Essex.
He was forcibly taken into Chinese territory by Communist farmers following an argument over a barbed-wire fence erected at the border on British orders. British troops standing only yards away did nothing. Their officer feared that any action might flare into a big incident.
Three other Hong Kong policemen have been abducted in the past eight days. Inspec- tor Knight is the first Briton among them.
Britain's request that Inspec- tor Knight be released was put by the Foreign Office to the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires in London, Mr. Shen Ping. A similar request was made by Mr. Donald Hopson, Britain's envoy in Peking.
Hundreds of bombs were planted by terrorists in Hong Kong yesterday. Many were scare devices, but some were described as "lethal." One suspected Communist blew him- self to bits.
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1/ OCT 190/
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