were driven underground and they were no longer able to co-ordinate and direct the activities of their supporters.
131. However, the results were not immediately apparent and there was intermittent rioting until the beginning of August. In Kowloon vehicles were again attacked and damaged and the Police were obliged to open fire on several occasions to disperse hostile crowds. One rioter was killed on 14th July in Reclamation Street. On Hong Kong Island the Johnston Road area continued to be unsettled and there were a succession of incidents in which fires were started, buildings were stoned and buses and trams attacked. On 17th July a fire was started at the Ying King Restaurant and the Police fired one round from a greener gun to disperse a hostile crowd that had collected, killing one man and wounding two others.
132. There was also rioting in Tsuen Wan in the New Territories. On the 15th July a crowd attacked a party of detectives who had arrested a group of men putting up posters, and two detectives were stabbed. Police reinforcements were called up but hostile crowds built up in Chung On Street and Texaco Road and the Police had to open fire with greener guns and carbines to disperse them. Two rioters were killed and four policemen were injured, one seriously.
133. On 26th July a communist-organized 'Procession for Patriots' formed up at Nelson Street in Kowloon but quickly deteriorated into a riot. The Police again opened fire to disperse the crowd and one man was killed. For about an hour mobs roamed the streets in the vicinity stoning buses, taxis and private cars. Two taxis were overturned and set on fire.
134. This proved to be the last major incident of its kind and the tactics of confrontation, under the pressure of the Police raids, then turned to a new phase.
135. On 28th July, Emergency Regulations were brought into force which allowed the detention, on the Colonial Secretary's warrant, of person who stimulated and encouraged acts of violence and lawlessness but did not take part in these acts. Such people had been immune from any action under the normal law. The numbers arrested over the following months totalled only 52, but the existence of the regulations served to discourage some of the instigators and to drive others under- ground.
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