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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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UNCLASSIFIED
26 August 1967
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2315 Attention Glover.
SITREP 4.
Two incidents occurred between 6 p.m. and 45 p.m. at the Lowu border. Two unindentified explosive devices were thrown at Hong kong territory from Chinese side. One landed on roof of Immigration Office but it did not explode. The other fell back on to Chinese side.
Three men were seen throwing these missiles and one of them who seemed to be injured was carried away by his companion. They were flushed out with a smoke grenade thrown by a Gurkha soldier.
At least two bursts of machine gun fire were heard during this time. A Gurkha officer at the observation tower of Hong Kong police post reported one of these bursts went over the heads of the observers,
At 7 p.m. quiet once more returned to the bridge. Ends informs.
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