Cypher/Cat A
CONFIDENTIAL
MMEDIATE HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
Teino 1314
CONFIDENTIAL
28 August, 1967
(D.T.D.)
419
Addressed to C.O. telegram No. 1314 of 28 August.
Repeated for information to:
And Saving to:
POLAD Singapore
Washington.
Your telegram No. 1783 (not to all).
On 26 August police broke up a demonstration by several hundred students at the Central Market. Seven people were arrested and of the five subsequently detained one turned out to be a Ta Kung Pao reporter, Wong Chak, who was slightly injured resisting arrest. He will be charged with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest and unlawful possession of a sheath knife.
2. So long as demonstrations of this kind take place I am afraid it is always possible that arrests of participating newspapermen may
follow.
Foreign Office please pass Washington as my Saving No. M137.
Sent 0810Z 28 August
O.A. G.
Recd 08152 28 August
[Repeated as requested].
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CONFIDENTIAL
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63
29 AUG1967
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