TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1994
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FROM AN OBSERVATION ROOM AT MAN KAM TO BASE, THEY BOOMING CITY OF SHENZHEN, IN THE ADJOINING CHINESE AND BOTH EXPRESSED SURPRISE AT THE PACE AND SCOPE OF ACROSS THE BORDER.
WERE SHOWN BORDER AREA,
DEVELOPMENTS
BORDER
FROM MAN KAM TO, THE ROYAL COUPLE WERE DRIVEN ALONG THE
VILLAGES AND VEGETABLE FENCE ROAD, THROUGH RUSTIC NEW TERRITORIES FIELDS.
FONG
THEY STOPPED AT THE SMALL BORDER CROSSING POINT AT THE LO BRIDGE TO MEET MEMBERS OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY CHARITY WALK TEAM, WHO WERE ON THE LAST LEG OF THEIR 150-MILE TREK THROUGH THE TERRITORY.
INJURIES THE PRINCESS MET 12 TEAM MEMBERS AND ASKED IF ANY HAD
TEAM MEMBERS LAUGHED WHEN OR BLISTERS AFTER SUCH A LONG ADVENTURE.
LYCRA HIS COLOURFUL, THE PRINCESS ASKED ONE MALE OFFICER WHETHER ATHLETIC SHORTS WERE VERY COMFORTABLE.
THE ROYAL COUPLE WERE THEN TAKEN TO THE PAK FA SHAN BASE, WHERE OPERATIONS AND THE IMMIGRANT WERE TOLD ABOUT ANTI-ILLEGAL
THEY SECURITY SYSTEMS ALONG THE BORDER FENCE.
THEY BOARDED A BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER FOR THE FLIGHT BACK TO HONG KONG AFTER A TOUR OF THE BORDER AREA THAT LASTED MORE THAN 90 MINUTES.
POLICE
BY
IN THE AFTERNOON, THE PRINCESS AND SIR ANGUS ARRIVED AT HEADQUARTERS IN ARSENAL STREET, WHERE THEY RECEIVED A ROYAL SALUTE THE QUARTER GUARD.
OF POLICE, MR AS THE ROYAL OF HONOUR
THE ROYAL COUPLE WAS MET BY THE COMMISSIONER EDDIE HUI KI-ON, WHO ESCORTED THEM TO A REVIEW DAIS.
GUARD THE FLAG STANDARD
WAS
ON THE FLAG POLE, BROKEN PRESENTED ARMS AS THE POLICE SILVER BAND PLAYED THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
THE PRINCESS THEN INSPECTED THE GUARD OF HONOUR OFFICERS FROM THE POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL.
MADE UP OF
SHORT DRILL DISPLAY, FOLLOWING THE INSPECTION, THERE WAS A
HER ROYAL INCLUDING A PERFORMANCE BY A "CHINESE LION", DURING WHICH HIGHNESS PERFORMED AN EYE-DOTTING CEREMONY.
COMMANDANT-GENERAL,
PRINCESS OFFICERS,
AS THE POLICE FORCE'S HONORARY ALEXANDRA TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO DECORATE 25 LONG-SERVING WHO HAD BEEN IN THE FORCE FROM 18 TO 30 YEARS, FOR THEIR COMBINED YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO UPHOLD LAW AND ORDER FOR PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.
THE
THE HISTORIC OCCASION WAS SEALED WHEN HER ROYAL HIGHNESS CLOSED A TIME CAPSULE COMMEMORATING THE FORCE'S 150 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE
IN THE INSERTED
CAPSULE INCLUDED COMMUNITY.
FORCE'S 1993 ANNIVERSARY
BOOKLETS AND SOUVENIRS, THE ANNUAL REPORT AND A POLICE BADGE.
SELECTED MEMENTOES COMMEMORATIVE
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA SIGNED A PHOTOGRAPH OF HERSELF TAKEN EARLIER THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS ALSO SIGNED BY WHEN SHE RECEIVED THE ROYAL SALUTE. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR HUI. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THEN PLACED THE PICTURE IN THE TIME CAPSULE AND SEALED IT. UNDER PHASE II OF ARSENAL HOUSE, NOW UNDER
HEADQUARTERS.
THE CAPSULE WILL BE BURIED CONSTRUCTION AT POLICE
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