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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1989

IN ADDITION, NARCOTICS BUREAU OFFICERS ARRESTED FIVE PEOPLE 15 OPERATIONS.

IN

IN THEIR SUSTAINED ARKES" ED 136 PEOPLE IN PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO TAPES.

EFFORTS 3,125

AGAINST RAIDS AND

VICE SEIZED

ACTIVITIES,

A TOTAL

POLICE OF 225

FRONT, ON THE ANTI-GAMBLING

ARRESTED 698 PEOPLE, SEIZING SLIPS WORTH ABOUT $156,000.

$335,000

CONDUCTED POLICE

IN

TABLE MONEY AND

94 RAIDS AND BETTING

POLICE ALSO CARRIED OUT 966 RAIDS AND ARRESTED 727 PEOPLE

THEIR FIGHT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING

IN

IN AUGUST. THE DRUGS SEIZED INCLUDED 22 KILOGRAMS OF NO. 3 HEROIN, 2.1 KILOGRAMS OF NO. 4 HEROIN, 1.2 KILOGRAMS OF OPIUM AND 760 GRAMS OF CANNABIS.

VOLUNTEERS PREPARE FOR WEEKEND BATTLE

SATURDAY NOON, AND WHILE MOST PEOPLE ARE PREPARING TO SPEND LEISURELY AFTERNOON OR GO SHOPPING, SOME 700 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE BUSY STREETS OF THE CITY APPOITMENT TO DO BATTLE.

ROYAL HONG KONG THE WERE ABOUT TO BE TRANSFORMED FROM

MEMBERS OF

ΤΟ TROOPS

TAKE PART MILITARY CODE-NAMED "DRY GUN ATTACK" AT

REGIMENT

(THE

A

ARE

TO KEEP AN

VOLUNTEERS) ORDINARY WORKING PEOPLE TO A

EXERCISE FULL REGIMENTAL IN HOI HA IN THE SAI KUNG COUNTRY PARK.

FROM THE REGIMENT'S HEADQUARTERS AT HAPPY VALLEY, THE 700 MEN AND WOMEN MADE THEIR WAY TO VARIOUS POINTS IN SAI KUNG WHERE THEY WERE TRANSPORTED TO HOI HA BY SEA AND AIR.

FLYING IN BY HELICOPTER, GROUPS OF SOLDIERS TOOK UP TO SECURE TWO HILLS OVERLOOKING THE BEACH AT HOI HA WHERE THE BOAT WOULD BRING IN SEVERAL HUNDRED MORE TROOPS TO PUSH INLAND.

POSITIONS

LANDING

THE

"ENEMY"

"THE

IDEA IS TO PRACTISE THE REGIMENT IN QUICK AND

A REGIMENT ATTACKS AGAINST LIGHTLY HELD ENEMY' FORCES, SAID.

"

DELIBERATE SPOKESMAN

"THE

AT ENEMY

WHOLE EXERCISE IS MORE THAN JUST PLAYING THE MEN AND WOMEN WILL BE DEPLOYED TO HARASS' THE THE NIGHT, AND THAT MEANS NO SLEEP FOR ANYONE," HE ADDED.

SOLDIERING.

THROUGHOUT

"THERE ARE COVET OPERATIONS TO KEEP THE ENEMY AWAKE THEY WOULD NOT BE PREPARED TO DO BATTLE THE NEXT DAY," HE SAID.

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