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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
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4 September 1967
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042000 Colony's school children returned to school today Monday as police kept up their raids on Leftwing premises.
Police carried out two raids today, both in Kowloon. In one raid early this morning on Fitters and Turners Workers Union in Reclamation Street in Yaumati police detained one man and seized quantity of crude weapons, inflammatory posters, homemade gas masks and fake bomb.
Nine (repeat nine) men and a woman were questioned by police later in day following raid on Hong Kong Plastics and Rubber Workers Union in Canton Road in Mongkok district.
Apart from a number of fake bomb scares Colony was generally quiet today following last night's spate of explosions in which one fire officer was killed and several persons injured.
In another police raid unconnected with disturbances more than one thousand (repeat one thousand) pounds of raw opium worth over six hundred thousand (repeat six hundred thousand) dollars were seized by police in flat in Blue Pool Road.
Flat is believed to be distribution centre.
No (repeat no) one was arrested in premises but three men and three women were detained for enquiries following drug raids in other part of Colony.
Another Communist newspaper Hong Kong Evening News was today suppressed for six months by Court order.
Order followed case in which three Communist newspapermen were sentenced to three years imprisonment on number of charges including sedition and publication of false news.
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