Tau Kok loud-speaker systems poured out a stream of
anti-British propaganda in support of the "compatriots"
in the urban areas. These broadcasts frequently insisted
that the Hong Kong British Government should accept
various demands made upon it by the C.P.G. authorities
and communist organisations in the Colony.
10.
Following an incident on the 24th June in Sha
Tau Kok, members of its A.P.S.C., fearing arrest, fled
Police had used tear gas to disperse a crowd
to China.
of some hundreds who had surrounded the Sha Tau Kok
Police Post near the border and were stoning it, having
set fire to a Police vehicle. These persons, with the
assistance of the Militia, were undoubtedly responsible
for a more serious incident on the 8th July, 1967,
involving an attack on the same Police Post by a large
crowd, the majority of whom apparently came from Chinese
Territory.
A number were armed and they, together with
others shooting from within Chinese Territory, subjected
Police in the post and Security Forces nearby to a heavy
barrage of small arms fire lasting several hours.
Attempts too were also made by the communist attackers
to blow up the Post with explosive devices. In the course
of this battle five Police Officers were killed and a number
of others wounded.
11.
The "success" of this action, in communist
eyes, subsequently inspired other Chinese Territory
villagers along the border to provoke further serious
incidents at Lo Wu, Man Kam To and Ta Ku Ling. They
became hostile to Security Forces and it became evident
that Militia leaders were the ring leaders, inciting the
villagers to various provocative incidents. These
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