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042000 Colony's school children returned to school today Monday as police kept up their raids on Leftwing premises.
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Police carried out two raids today, both in Kowloon. raid early this morning on Fitters and Turners Workers Union in Reclamation Street in Yaumati police detained one man and seized quantity of crude weapons, inflammatory posters, homemade gas masks and fake bomb.
Nine (repeat nine) men and a woman were questioned by police later in day following raid on Hong Kong Plastics and Rubber Workers Union in Canton Road in Mongkok district.
Apart from a number of fake bomb scares Colony was generally quiet today following last night's spate of explosions in which one fire officer was killed and several persons injured.
In another police raid unconnected with disturbances more than one thousand (repeat one thousand) pounds of raw opium worth over six hundred thousand (repeat six hundred thousand) dollars were seized by police in flat in Blue Pool Road.
Flat is believed to be distribution centre.
No (repeat no) one was arrested in premises but three men and three women were detained for enquiries following drug raids in other part of Colony.
Another Communist newspaper Hong Kong Evening News was today suppressed for six months by Court order.
Order followed case in which three Communist newspapermen were sentenced to three years imprisonment on number of charges including sedition and publication of false news.
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050945 Attention Glover.
Just before nine p.m. yesterday Monday, what appeared to be a black powder bomb, inserted through a pavement level grill, exploded in basement of South China Morning Post Wyndham Street.
No repeat no damage or casualties were caused.
A second similar bomb of which fuse had burnt out was then found
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It was removed by an Army expert and later sandbagged and detonated again without damage at end of On Lan Street.
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Hong Kong had a bomb free day today Tuesday. There were no (repeat no) reports of explosions in the Colony although police were
kept busy chasing reports about false bombs.
Because trouble makers have been exploiting use of hoax devices made up to look like bombs to disrupt law and order in Colony a number of amendments have been made to emergency regulations.
Amendments were published in a special issue of Government Gazette
today.
Main purpose of amendments is to make it an offence to be in possession of a hoax on simulated bomb and also to be found in premises in which simulated bombs are made or stored.
Government spokesman said three of four persons are arrested each week by police either for carrying hoax bomba or in act of placing them in street.
However police have not (repeat not) been able under existing law to lay satisfactory charges against them although it is obvious that these people are assisting terrorist campaign.
Spokesman pointed out that very large proportion of reports of bombs redeived by police has been concerned with hoax devices. Police today continued to carry out raids in Colony. Four(repeat four) metal moulding factories in Yuen Long in New Territories were searched by police under emergency regulations. man was detained for questioning.
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Sitrep for period 140800 to 210800.
My telegram No. 1361.
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In general bomb activity calmed down during the period of the moon festival, 18 September, but flared up again on the 19th 20th.
There were 299 bomb reports during the week of which 47 were genuine and 252 false alarms or hoaxes. I suspected terrorist was killed and 17 police, 5 military, 7 suspects and 33 members of the public injured. On 16th an Army Warrant Officer engaged on bomb disposal was injured by an
xplosion at Tsuen Wan. In the evening of 19th a crowd of 50-100 persons gathered on Nathan Road in the Mong Kok District of Kowloon. While the police were dealing with the crowd a bomb was thrown injuring five police and 24 civilians. A number of hoax bombs were found in the area, and a real bomb thrown at a police party. 13 persons were arrested and a nearby left-wing school raided.
3. un the evening of 20th, there were a number of demonstrations at Vous places in Kowloon and Hong Kong, crowds of varying sizes
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ng banners and shouting slogans were dispersed by the police firing g' na baton shells. Bombs were again thrown at groups of police ex ning suspected bombs. A policeman, four prisoners and nine members
public were injured. In the new territories a suspected te.rorist was killed when the bomb he was carrying exploded.
4. Political broadcasts at Low U continued. At Sha Tau Kok on 17th there was more stoning while sappers were fixing wire protection to windows. At 192200 a Gurkha patrol in the Sha Tau Ko1 area was attacked by bomb thrown from Chinese territory, one British officer, three Gurkha 0.Rs and one policeman were slightly injured. Elsewhere the position has been quiet.
5. Supplies of pork from China for the week, which included the mid-autumn festival on the 18th, were almost back to normal with a total of 25,000 head. Since 14th, supplies have arrived at a greatly I creased rate. Pigs are still coming from Honan and on the 17th 5,170 arrived from Hupeh Province, the first since January. The majority of pigs come by road through Man Kam To, having been unloaded from the railway at Po Kat North of Shum Chun. As a result of these increased supplies, prices are now falling.
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6. The total number of railway freight wagons which arrived between 1-38 September was 89 compared with 800 during the similar period last 164-river vessels arrived from China during the same period with .993 tons of food and 5967 tons of general cargo. This is far short of the normal figures and is believed to be due to a bottleneck in Canton.
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Some degree of coordination, however loose, must be taking place between the military student and workers group who have been responsible for the recent upsurge of demonstrations and homb throwing.
There appear to have been three such groups active in the urban areas.
It is possible that this renewed activity is designed to mark the Governor's return. On the other hand, the division between the Communist leadership and the militants and the former's plans for a peaceful celebration of 1 October anniversary may be shattered. Despite the increased militancy in the streets, evidence continues to accrue of attempts to normalize commercial relations.
2. It may well be that we are now facing a split in the opposition between the aggressive younger elements and the more senior and conservative Peking oriented higher direction.
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Four more bombs were found today in various parts of Colony. One of bombs exploded as Army ammunition expert
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The police arrested twenty-nine people including several girls and a boy following series of bomb throwing incidents, and demonstrations in various parts of the Colony last night.
During the incidents, twenty people among them eight policemen, received injuries from explosions caused by bombs thrown by local Communist trouble makers.
The incidents began in the later afternoon when two groups of people demonstrated in the Western district of Hong Kong Island shortly after five o'clock. The demonstrators dispersed when police arrived on the scene. However a boy and two girls were detained for enquiries. Some banners were also seized.
Three hours later a man was arrested as he was lacing a bomb outside the Shaukiwan Post Office. This attracted a crowd of srout seven hundred onlookers,
six of them, including woman, were arrested after refusing to disperse.
While this was going on, a bomb was thrown at a police party investigating a suspected bomb in Johnson Road near Swatow Street. Five policemen were injured. Police fired one shot from a Greener gun at a man suspected of throwing the bomb but he escaped.
Two baton shells were also used to break up a crowd which had gathered in the area.
In Kowloon, the incidents began at seven o'clock in the evening when a crowd of about four hundred demonstrated in Shanghai Street at its junction with Dundas Street. When the crowd failed to disperse police fired one round of tear gas to break them up. The police party was then attacked with two bombs and were forced to fire two rounds of carbine.
Shortly afterwards another police party came under attack from a second crowd of one hundred and fifty people in Shanghai Street near Argyle Street.
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the area and a number of inflammatory banners seized.
As this was happening, detectives arrested a boy who was placing a bomb at a pedestrian crossing in Lai Chi Kok Road at its junction with Pei Ho Street. The area was immediately cordoned off. Not long afterwards, a bomb was thrown at a group of onlookers about one hundred yards away from where the bomb was planted. The bomb exploded injuring three policemen and eight civilians. A search was then conducted in the area.
One of the premises searched was that of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Printers Union where police seized a quantity of inflammatory posters. A man was arrested on the staircase of the searched building.
At about the same time, a small boy sustained minor injuries when a bomb was thrown at a police party in Reclamation Street. No policemen were injured in the incident.
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According to a report dated 19 September from the Master of the British Vessel "INCHSTUART", now discharging coal at Whampoa, his vessel was being worked by 50 Red Guards from Peking, who told him inter alia, that things would not settle down in China before next April.
2. Heavy gunfire was being exchanged across the river and two unidentified vessels were seen to be hit by small arms fire. Soldiers were stationed in the dock area with the declared purpose of protecting foreign seamen.
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Police continuing their swoops on Communist Union Premises in Hong Kong arrested three people today. There is no repeat no question that police are in control of situation.
Apart from small demonstration in Kowloon City this evening nivlving one hundred people Colony remained quiet. There were no repeat no) reports of bombs being found today.
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Investigations which will begin in November and last for period of about six months will involve small scale engineering works necessary to make trial bore holes at various locations.
It was also announced that one of results of Governments decision to investigate feasibility of constructing reservoirs in areas mentioned above is that a proposed scheme at Hebe Haven (repeat Hebe Haven) which had been under consideration by Government has been abandoned.
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Law and order in two spots in Kowloon were immediately restored after police dispersed two crowds of people gathered in streets to hold demonstrations earlier last Friday evening. In one spot a man was shot in the shoulder when he attacked a police officer with corrosive acid. Both were sent to hospital for treatment. There were about one hundred (repeat one hundred) people in the crowd there. In other spot there were about three hundred (repeat three hundred) people in the crowd.
On Hong Kong Island there were neither demonstrations nor reports of real bombs throughout the day. In Kowloon Army ammunition experts detonated three real bombs which caused no (repeat no) damage to property or injury to person.
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