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Restaurant opposite the wharf where inflammatory placards
were being hastily written and thrown out over the verandah.
The Restaurant in question has since been closed.
There
were a number of calls in the afternoon, several false
alarms among them, and also in the evening when hostile
crowds collected but retreated immediately on the arrival
were made for disorderly
of the Police. Seven arrests
conduct in Central District.
In the Eastern District in
Two Chinese were arrested.
I
There
Lockhart Road and Lee Tung Street, three shops were stoned
between 7 and 9.30 p.m. and thirteen Chinese were arrested.
In the Western District a Japanese was assaulted by the
crowd and sent to hospital. Police were stoned and an
Indian Sergeant injured.
personally visited the Wanchai (Eastern) District at 9 p.m.
and 11 p.m. and conditions did not appear unsettled.
were crowds here and there but they were passive and the
large vacant ground was clear. On Friday the 25th
September the first signs of disorder were apparent in
Kowloon which had hitherto been absolutely quiet. A few
isolated Japanese were attacked, one of whom ran into
Yaumati Police Station. A hostile crowd collected there
and there was some stone throwing. The crowd did not
disperse until they had been charged several times by the
Police. By midnight all was quiet both in Hong Kong and
Kowloon.
4.
Des
On Saturday morning the 26th September conditions
appeared to be more satisfactory. Minor demonstrations
occurred in the Central District in Connaught Road,
Voeux Road and Wing Lok Street, but they were not suffi-
cently serious to warrant calling out the Emergency Unit.
I had interviewed H.. the Governor on Friday evening the
25th September and informed H.E. that the situation