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GOPY
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CYPHER/CAT'A'
FLASH HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 699
CONFIDENTIAL.
TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
30 MAY 1968.
· ADDRESSED COMMONWEALTH OFFICE AS MY TELEGRAM NO. 699 DATED 30TH MAY
REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING, PA SINGAPORE, WASHINGTON, AND
UKREP CANBERRA.
INCIDENT AT LO WU.
AT ABOUT 10、A.M. ON WEDNESDAY 29 MAY, POLICE PARTY WERE PRACTICE
FIRING GAS PISTOLS ON SAN UK LING RANGE (SOME TWO MILES EAST OF LO WU
AND ABOUT 1000 YARDS SOUTH OF BORDER). AS THE GAS WAS DISPERSED BY
WIND IT EVIDENTLY AFFECTED PERSONS WORKING IN FIELDS, FOR AT 1220
A GROUP OF SOME 20 HAKKA WOMEN, ALL BELIEVED TO BE RÉSIDENTS OF
C.T. WHO REGULARLY CROSS INTO B.T. TO FARM CAME TO POLICE POST AT
LO WU TO COMPLAIN. THEY MAINTAINED THAT TEAR GAS GRENADES HAD BEEN
THROWN AT THEM.
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2. THE CROWD AT POLICE POST GRADUALLY INCREASED TO ABOUT 50 AND
BECAME UNFRIENDLY. THEY DEMANDED A WRITTEN APOLOGY AND GUARANTEE
OF NON-RECURRENCE.
3. AT 2 P.M. FOUR DEMANDS WERE PRESENTED TO POLICE:
(A) INVESTIGATION TO BE HELD,
(B) INCIDENT NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO RECUR,
(C) CULPRITS TO BE PUNISHED,
(D) WRITTEN GUARANTEE ON NON-RECURRENCE.
4. AT 3 P.M. YOUTHS FROM C.T. STONED OUR IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS ON
BRIDGE AND THEY HAD TO WITHDRAW BUT THE BRIDGE WAS NOT CLOSED AND
THERE WAS NO INTERFERENCE WITH CROSSING PASSENGERS. CLEARANCE ON
IN
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