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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
30 August 1967
Attention Glover.
The border remained quiet yesterday.
A man was killed when police fired a Greener shot at a crowd at Tung Tau Resettlement Estate in Kowloon. last night.
At about eight o'clock, two crowds - the first numbered about two hundred people and the second about six to eight hundred - gathered in the Tung Tau area. They painted slogans and put up posters.
A bomb was thrown at the police party rushing to the scene and upon arrival a burning torch was thrown at them by a man.
Police were forced to fire a Greener shot at the man and fired two rounds of tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Nine men were arrested and are detained for questioning.
Six suspected bombs were found in the vicinity when nolice later swept through the area. Two were later found to be genuine
bombs.
At about the same time last night, the police searched the Hong Kong and Kowloon Metal Workers' Union premises in Tin Kwong Road, Kowloon.
A quantity of offensive weapons, inflammatory posters and some suspected petrol bombs were seized.
Two women were arrested and are due to be charged with being in premises where offensive weapons are found.
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