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officials including Health and Police
Advisers. A meeting was held when he
addressed the crowd under the Chinese flag.
This was interpreted in the Chinese press as
reaffirming Chinese sovereignty.
In defiance
of the Court's order, a number of huts were
illegally re-erected on the former sites.
Police action to move them on the 12th
January was met by resistance.
As the police
party approached through a narrow alley leading to the "walled City", they were met
by loud shouts and a heavy barrage of stones
from a crowd of over 100 persons.
several
of the police were hit and the mob was
obviously acting on a prearranged plan.
Police efforts to quieten the mob were
drowned in the clamour, and it was necessary
for the police then to fire warning shots from
into the ground. revolvers
ers These warnings were without
effect on the crowd and tear smoke was then
used, which had the desired effect of
dispersing the crowd. The police were then
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able to remove the huts in accordance with
their orders. Six persons were later, I
regret to state, discovered to have received
hurts, five suffering minor injuries and one
having an abdominal wound from a bullet, most
probably by an accidental ̈ricochet.
condition of the last-named, according to
latest reports, is described as fair. I
would particularly draw Your Excellency's
attention to the fact that the police were
outside the socalled Aowloon city when they
were attacked. Some of the attackers were
inside and some outside the city, but it is
impossible/