Embargo Note to Editors:
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Tuesday, March 13, 1973
The following announcement is being
made simultaneously in London tonight. Publication
is permitted in Hong Kong newspapers tomorrow (Wednesday) morning but no news agencies or
overseas radio transmissions of the announcement
may carry the information without the embargo
qualification.
The news may be broadcast from
7 a.m. onwards over the local radio and TV
stations tomorrow.
On no account should the recipients
be contacted for interviews or for information
relative to his career or be approached in any way in connection with the award before
this has been publicly announced.
SIX POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN HONOURED FOR GALLANTRY
In Saving People In "Jumbo" Fire
Six members of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and the Fire Services
are awarded the Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry for the part they played
in rescuing a number of people from the Jumbo Floating Restaurant fire in
Aberdeen in October 1971.
They are Inspector Peter Michael Mullens, Inspector Leslie Burton,
Police Sergeant Lun Kam-yat, Senior Fireman Choy Fut-po, and Firemen Chiu
Yu-chip and Yau Shou-kit.
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