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Tuesday, July 31, 1973
EMBARGO Noto to Editors:
The following announcement is being made simultaneously in London tonight. Publication
is permitted in Hong Kong newspapers tomorrow (Wednesday) morning but no news agencies or
overseas radio transmissions of the announcement
may carry the information without the embargo qualification.
The news may be broadcast from 7 a.m.
onwards over the local radio and TV stations
tomorrow.
On no account should the recipients
be contacted for interviews or for information relative to his career or be approached in any
way in connection with the award before this has
been publicly announced.
QUEEN HONOURS FIREMEN, POLICE INSPECTOR AND CIVILIAN FOR GALLANTRY
IN LAST YEAR'S KOTEWALL ROAD HOUSE COLLAPSE
:
Nine fire officers, a senior police inspector and a civilian engineer
have been honoured by Her Majesty the Queen for gallantry while taking part
in rescue operations at the scene of the Kotewall Road house collapse in
June last year.
The firemen were involved in digging a tunnel in an attempt to free
a person trapped under hundreds of tons of debris on June 19.
During the rescue operation, it was only possible to work in teems
of two with hand equipment to dig an unshored tunnel of about two foot in
diameter and about 30 feet in length.
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