Police cordoned off the area but it was three hours before the rioters could be subdued. On the 11th the pattern was repeated. Fires were started and public transport damaged. Police in the vicinity of the shop were attacked and bottles and quick-lime were thrown at them. At 10.35 p.m. the shop itself caught fire; although tear gas shells had been fired into the shop, it was believed that the fire was caused by an elec- trical fault. Some damage was caused to the ground and mezzanine floors but this did not prevent the occupants from making further attacks on the Police the next morning.
119. There was serious rioting in Wan Chai, mainly in the vicinity of Johnston Road. On the night of the 9th a mob attacked and set on fire the Wan Chai Kai Fong premises at O'Brien Road, causing serious damage. This crowd was dispersed but later another mob, which was stoning the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank office in Johnston Road, was engaged by the Police. After tear gas shells had failed to disperse them the Police, after due warning, fired two rounds of carbine killing one rioter and injuring another.
120. The following evening crowds again gathered in the same area. They broke into the Violet Peel Clinic and attempted to set it on fire. Bottles were thrown at the Police, some containing acid, and rubbish fires were started in the streets. During an attack on a tram, which was set on fire, a man was fatally stabbed. It was at first thought that he was the tram driver but he was later identified as an odd-job worker with a history of mental illness; he had been heard to shout, ‘Death to the red dogs'.
121. The Violet Peel Clinic was again attacked on 11th July and a bomb was thrown at a Police vehicle, fortunately causing no damage. A curfew was imposed on the area from 10.30 p.m. and this effectively reduced the crowds to 'hard-core' communists. They continued how- ever to throw stones and bottles at the Police and they caused further damage to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building and to the Chartered Bank office in Fleming Road. The Police fired tear gas shells and rounds from carbine and greener guns at the communist New China Products shop in Johnston Road which effectively stopped the barrage of missiles from this building.
122. In Kowloon the disorders were mostly confined to attacks on public and private vehicles. On the 9th July a bus was set on fire and completely destroyed at Lung Cheung Road. On the 10th a mob stopped a bus at the junction of Nathan Road and Salisbury Road
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