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impossible to say with certainty whether the

casualties referred to were sustained inside

or outside it.

These

During the course of the first eviction

two individuals were arrested who attempted to

intimidate the workmen engaged in dismantling

the huts and to incite the squatters to resist

the police in the execution of their duty.

two were Chu Pui Tong, Chairman of the Kowloon

City Residents' Association, described as a

farmer, and Lau Ngai Fu, described as partner

in a knitting factory. They were brought

before the Kowloon Magistrate's Court on the

13th January and after trial were sentenced

each to three months' hard labour for inciting

persons to resist the police in the execution

of their duty. They indicated that they were

going to appeal to the Supreme Court at Hong Kong.

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It 18 not yet known whether they have in fact

done so. Lau Ngai Fu, in cross-examination,

admitted that he had previously been in the

156th Division of the Chinese Army, attached

to the Political Propaganda Section.

Your Excellency will observe from the

facts detailed above that the Hong Kong

Government gave ample notice to the squatters

and made alternative accommodation) available,

and not until court notices had been served

and ignored was action taken by the police on

the 5th January. Moreover, the eviction was

carried out on that date without incident.

There then supervened the Po On Magistrate's

visit to Kowloon city on the 7th January,

following which a considerable number of

squatters returned, encouraged thereto by

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