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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
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Press
24 August 1967
241900 Attention Glover.
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Lowu and Man Kam to rail and bridge crossings into Hong Kong were scenes of series of incidents today Thursday,
This morning group of some forty (repeat forty) demonstrators crossed Lowu Bridge and fought their way into Immigration compound on Hong Kong side. They wrested a tape recorder from Commercial Radio commentator Mr. Tim Williams who was member of a Press party visiting Lowu at time. Later demonstrators were repelled by gas grenades and a smoke grenade fired by Gurkha troops.
At Chinese end of bridge Communist Chinese army personnel were seen grappling with members of crowd of one hundred (repeat one hundred) attempting to join demonstration.
Peace returned to Lowu until this afternoon when at about 5 p.m. another crowd began further demonstration during which two bursts of machine gun fire were heard from a hill on Chinese side of border. It is not (repeat not) known whether these shots were fired into Hong Kong territory or upon demonstrators attempting to break through from Chinese side.
At about same time a group of some fifty (repeat fifty) men threw stones and tore away some of barricades placed on Man Kam To bridge to east of Lowu. These demonstrators who used hay carts to screen their activities were also repelled by gas grenades fired by Gurkha troops.
At about 6.20 p.m. several petrol bombs were thrown into Hong Kong side of border at lowu.
One of bombs set fire to roof of Immigration Office.
A little earlier three men swam across the river on left of railway and clambered on to Hong Kong territory where they cut a hole in a barbed wire fence before swimming back to their side.
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O.A.G. Sent 2020Z 24 August
Recd 13492 24 August
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