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Addressed to Foreign Orrice telegram No.1028 of 7 August. Repeated for information to Hong Kong, POLAD Singapore and Saving to Washington.
SO Your telegram No.703:
Border incidents.
As I have had no response to my request for an interview from the Foreign Ministry, I have sent a Note round this afternoon. The text is as in my telegram No.1012 plus an additional penultimate paragraph as follows:
"On the morning of 5 August a group of about thirty Chinese crossed the Hong Kong frontier at the road crossing point at Man Kam. They turned on a policeman and soldier who
were on duty and grabbed their weapons and then surrounded and entered
a police post. It was only after a military force had been moved
up to support the police post that this group was persuaded to hand back the weapons and return to Chinese territory.'
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In last paragraph I have amended the words "I have" to read "the British Chargé d'Affaires has".
F.0. pass Saving to Washington 29.
Mr. Hopson
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