TNAG-0014-FCO40-50-Kowloon-disturbances-1967 — Page 103

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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (DTD)

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Telegram unnumbered

20 September, 1967.

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ARCHIVES No. 63

20 SEP1967

Press report 200745.

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Attention Glover,

Sitrep.

Twenty-nine people including five policemen were injured last Tuesday night when a bomb was thrown at a police land-rover from the roof top of a building in Nathan Road at its junction with Dundas Street in Kowloon. Very slight damage was done to the land-rover and another police lorry.

Two of the injured policemen as well as twenty two of the other twenty four injured people have been detained in hospital for treatment. Their condition was described as satisfactory by the hospital.

A suspected bomb was found earlier in Nathan Road near Nelson Street. It was later detonated by army ammunition experts. There was also a crowd of about eighty people some of them carrying inflammatory banners. They dispersed on arrival of police.

Altogether thirteen people were arrested in connection with the incidents in the area. Two of the arrested persons were among those detained in the hospital. These two were among the four who were arrested after a search by police who saw blood stains leading from the street to a workers' children's school at thirty-seven Dundas Street third floor and then on to the roof of the building.

A total of eleven suspected objects believed to be bombs were found in the vicinity. Of them two (repeat two) including the one thrown at the police land-rover were genuine bombs.

The police had fired one shot from a Greener gun to disperse one crowd of people and several gas shells to disperse some other small groups of people.

A total of thirty-two reports of suspected bombs were received by police on both sides of Harbour between eight o'clock in the morning and midnight last Tuesday. Half of these were made in Kowloon where three including the two mentioned previously were genuine. All sixteen on Hong Kong Island were fakes.

A bomb explosion and a minor stone throwing incident were reported last night in the border area at Sha Tau Kok. Four Gurkha soldiers and a police constable on patrol were slightly injured. They carried on their duty as usual.

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