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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1989
GOODS VEHICLES RESTRICTION IN CHEUNG SHA WAN
THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES THAT FROM 10 AM ON FRIDAY (JUNE 2), FORTUNE STREET BETWEEN ITS JUNCTION WITH FAT TSEUNG STREET AND A POINT ADOUT 174 METRES WEST OF THE SAMR JUNCTION WILL BE DESIGNATED A GOODS VEHICLES URBAN CLEARWAYS FROM 7 AM TO 7 PM DAILY.
WITHIN THE URBAN CLEARWAY. ALL GOODS VEHICLES EXCEPT THOSE WITH PERMITS ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT WILL BE PROHIBITED FROM STOPPING FOR PASSENGERS OR GOODS.
POLICE HAVE RESPONDED MAGNIFICENTLY: GOVERNOR
THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, YESTERDAY (TUESDAY) INTERRUPTED HIS BUSY SCHEDULE TO PAY AN IMPROMPTU CALL ON THE POLICE REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS FOR HONG KONG ISLAND ΤΟ THANK OFFICERS FOR THE WAY IN WHICH THEY HAD DEALT WITH EVENTS IN HONG KONG OVER PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS OR SO.
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SIR DAVID TOLD OFFICERS POLICED THE VARIOUS MEETINGS ASSOCIATED
"YOU HAVE RESPONDED MAGNIFICENTLY,' FROM A CROSS SECTION OF THE FORMATIONS WHO HAD MASS RALLIES, DEMONSTRATIONS, MARCHES AND PUBLIC WITH STUDENT PROTESTS IN CHINA.
"YOU HAVE, I KNOW, RECEIVED
CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC
AND FROM THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND ALL OF US FEEL RIGHTLY PROUD OF THE WAY IN WHICH THE FORCE HAS REACTED,"
SIR DAVID LIKENED WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN HONG KONG IN THE PASSAGE OF TWO WEEKS TO AN EXERCISE SCENARIO.
"FIRST OF ALL WE HAD 1,000 BOAT PEOPLE ARRIVING IN THE COURSE OF TWO DAYS; THEN THE THREAT OF A TYPHOON AND THE MOVEMENT OF 2,000 PEOPLE FROM FERRIES ONTO DRY LAND. NEXT THE TYPHOON ARRIVED AND WE HAD TO DEAL WITH THIS. THEN MARTIAL LAW WAS DECLARED IN BEIJING AND WE HAD 50,000 DEMONSTRATORS IN THE MIDDLE OF A TYPHOON AND OVER HALF-A-MILLION MARCHERS THE FOLLOWING DAY.
"IF SOMEONE HAD WRITTEN ALL THIS DOWN AS AN EXERCISE SCENARIO WE WOULD HAVE SAID IT WAS WILD EXAGGERATION; REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THAT.
"BUT REAL LIFE IN HONG KONG IS ALWAYS WRITERS WOULD HAVE IT BE.
STRANGER THAN SCENARIO
"WE HAVE