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Restaurant opposite the wharf where inflammatory placards

were being hastily written and thrown out over the verandah.

The Restaurant in question has since been closed.

There

were a number of calls in the afternoon, several false

alarms among them, and also in the evening when hostile

crowds collected but retreated immediately on the arrival

were made for disorderly

of the Police. Seven arrests

conduct in Central District.

In the Eastern District in

Two Chinese were arrested.

I

There

Lockhart Road and Lee Tung Street, three shops were stoned

between 7 and 9.30 p.m. and thirteen Chinese were arrested.

In the Western District a Japanese was assaulted by the

crowd and sent to hospital. Police were stoned and an

Indian Sergeant injured.

personally visited the Wanchai (Eastern) District at 9 p.m.

and 11 p.m. and conditions did not appear unsettled.

were crowds here and there but they were passive and the

large vacant ground was clear. On Friday the 25th

September the first signs of disorder were apparent in

Kowloon which had hitherto been absolutely quiet. A few

isolated Japanese were attacked, one of whom ran into

Yaumati Police Station. A hostile crowd collected there

and there was some stone throwing. The crowd did not

disperse until they had been charged several times by the

Police. By midnight all was quiet both in Hong Kong and

Kowloon.

4.

Des

On Saturday morning the 26th September conditions

appeared to be more satisfactory. Minor demonstrations

occurred in the Central District in Connaught Road,

Voeux Road and Wing Lok Street, but they were not suffi-

cently serious to warrant calling out the Emergency Unit.

I had interviewed H.. the Governor on Friday evening the

25th September and informed H.E. that the situation