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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1991

19, MR

ASPREY SAID INVOLVED IN

AS REGARDS A RECENT INCIDENT ON NOVEMBER THREE POLICE VESSELS AND A NUMBER OF POLICE ON LAND WERE AN ANTI-SMUGGLING OPERATION AT THE ASH LAGOON AT NIM WAN IN DEEP BAY.

AT ABOUT 10.30 PM A WOODEN VESSEL WAS SEEN

INTERCEPT

TO LEAVE THE ASH

IT, A SAMPAN INTERPOSED

LAGOON. WHEN THE POLICE WENT TO ITSELF BETWEEN THE POLICE VESSELS AND THE WOODEN VESSEL.

GREEN UNIFORM, TWO AT THE

ALL THREE CREW ON THE SAMPAN WERE WEARING WITH GOLD STRIPES ON THE SLEEVES. ONE POINTED A TYPE 56 RIFLE POLICE. ANOTHER POINTED A PISTOL.

TWO CREW ON THE WOODEN

THE POLICE OBSERVED THAT ONE OF THE VESSEL WAS ALSO A MAN IN UNIFORM CARRYING A TYPE 56 RIFLE.

IN THE

OF SPEEDBOAT WITH A CARRYING

DIRECTION

THE SAMPAN AND THE WOODEN VESSEL HEADED SHEKOU. THE POLICE FOLLOWED. AT THIS POINT A WHITE RED STRIPE APPEARED. IT HAD FOUR CREW, ALL IN UNIFORM, THREE TYPE 56 RIFLES WHICH THEY POINTED AT THE POLICE.

THE THREE BOATS THEN PASSED INTO CHINESE WATERS AND TO DOCK AT THE SHEKOU HYDROFOIL PIER AT ABOUT 10.40 PM.

WERE SEEN

HAD BEEN

RAISED WITH BOTH THE

AND BUREAU,

ALSO

THE WITH THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN

MR ASPREY SAID THIS INCIDENT NONA AND THE GUANGDONG FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHINESE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS THROUGH PEKING.

ΤΟ BE "WE HAVE EXPRESSED OUR CONCERN THAT PEOPLE WHO APPEARED

INSIDE HONG KONG CHINESE SECURITY PERSONNEL HAD BEEN OPERATING WELL WATERS.

"THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT YET THE OUTCOME OF THEIR INVESTIGATIONS,

REPLIED, AND WE

AWAIT

HE SAID.

ARMED INTRUDERS WAS NOTING THAT THE PROBLEM OF INCURSIONS BY

IN NOT NEW TO THE MARINE POLICE, MR ASPREY SAID THEY WERE EXPERIENCED HANDLING SUCH INCIDENTS.

MILE SQUARE THE ROYAL NAVY CONDUCTS REGULAR PATROLS OF THE 50

ENSURE THE INTEGRITY OF BOUNDARY TO DEMONSTRATE SOVEREIGNTY AND TO HONG KONG'S TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES.

MR ASPREY SAID IT WAS WOULD NOT TAKE PLACE IN FUTURE,

TO IMPOSSIBLE

ENSURE

THAT

INCURSIONS

"BUT WE HAVE MADE CONCERNS KNOWN VERY CLEARLY

ΤΟ THE CHINESE

AUTHORITIES.

"THE CHINESE HAVE ASSURED US THAT THEY DO NOT SEEK TO EXERCISE OPPOSED TO JURISDICTION IN HONG KONG WATERS AND THAT THEY ARE FIRMLY ALL SMUGGLING ACTIVITY," HE SAID.

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