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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (DTD)
Tel unnumbered 15 September, 1967
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Press Report 151930.
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Nineteen (repeat nineteen) people were arrested by Police today following two demonstrations one in Yaumatei Kowloon and other outside Causeway Bay Magistracy on Hong Kong Island.
Two hundred people took part in Kowloon demonstration and Police had to fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators. Only thirty people involved in Island demonstration.
Two genuine bombs were found on Island today but they disposed of by Army ammunition experts.
Police carried out another raid on village in new territories early this morning. Four men were arrested and number of inflammatory posters books and leaflets were seized.
In Supreme Court today a thirty-one year old man was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for possessing bomb.
Court was told that bomb was so powerful that sandbags were thrown fourteen feet away when ammunition experts detonated it.
Despite occasional demonstrations and discovery of odd bomb or two Colony's population making preparations for mid autumn (moon) festival which falls on Monday Endit informs.
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