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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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PRESS
7 September, 1967
071900 Attention Glover.
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Except for a bomb found at Taipo Market opposite Taipo Railway Station early this Thursday morning Hong Kong passed another quiet day without incidents. Bomb was dismantled by Army ammunition expert.
In Tsuen Was police arrested one man and two women when they searched three premises at 2 a.m. The three were detained for questioning following a search of Room 427, Wing Hing House, Fourth Floor, Fuk Loi Estate. Number of inflammatory documents were seized.
Inflammatory documents were also seized during two earlier searches in Rooms 643 and 544, Block Nineteen Tai Wo Hau Resettlement Estate. These two were searched between midnight and 1.45 a.m.
In afternoon group of seven villagers from Chinese Territory crossed Border at Lo Fong Bridge hustled driver into a tea house at Ta Kwu Ling Market and accused him of being a radio reporter.
Case of mistaken identity occurred when driver who had just driven party of fireman to Ta Kwu Ling Fire Station wandered down to market place carrying transistor radio.
Villagers, one of whom had earlier been shouting slogans through a loud-hailer claimed that the radio was a tape recorder.
Argument was settled at the tea house within ten minutes when driver demonstrated that object was in fact a radio.
They let him go with his transistor radio intact and returned to Chinese Territory.
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