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INWARD TELEGRAM

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FROM HONG KONG (0.A.G.)

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Isolated attacks on police and on public transport

Disorder spread for the first time into the New Territories town of Tsuen Wan on Saturday night. There have been more cases of the use of explosives, the police being the main targets. Two English

have continued, mainly in Kowloon,

TV cameramen were assaulted by a group from the Bank of China on Saturday and had their camera seized and broken (my telegram 906 No. 1043 refers). 28 men and women including representatives

of the N.C.N.A, were arrested after a demonstration outside Government House on Saturday afternoon. The rumoured stoppage of food supplies has not so far taken place. The police carried out a number of raids on Communist premises over the weekend.

Friday 14 July.

Five vehicles were burned and 12 others stoned on Friday night. Four home made bombs were thrown at police patrols in Kowloon where there were two riotous gatherings. In dispersing one the police had to fire a round from a Greener gun, One man was killed and another wounded. Police arrested fifteen when dispersing a crowd in Wanchai. Three off duty policemen were assaulted. Shortly after 15 0200 the police raided a Chinese Communist school in the western district of Hong Kong. The students of the school had almost certainly been involved in the incident when a policeman was killed with a cargo hook on 9 July. Two arrests were made a quantity of improvised weapons and seditious pamphlets recovered. There was no violence.

Saturday 15 July.

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There was a demonstration outside Government House by a deputation, which included representatives of the N.C.N.A., local reporters and school teachers, against the arrest of the N.C.N.A. agy reporter (my telegram No. 1002 refers). They refused to disperse

and were arrested, which they must have known would happen. 2230 an explosive charge was thrown at the door of a block of naval other ranks quarters causing damage to windows but no

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