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(D.T.D.)
29 September, 1967
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Police completed yesterday evening search at construction site in Yau Tong Bay. Twenty four more sticks of gelignite and four more electric detonators were uncovered. This fresh haul brings to three hundred ninety four and seventy one the total number of sticks of gelignite and electric detonators uncovered respectively. No (repeat no) further arrest was made.
About seven hundred pounds of fire crackers were seized by police during a rad on a local Communists bookshop in Taipo Market New Territories last night. Man was detained in connection with seizure.
Apart from the premises of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Dock Workers Amalgamated Union in Kowloon which was searched yesterday morning eight premises of three Workers Unions were searched by the police later in the day. Five of these premises are occupied by the Government Armed Forces and hospital Workers Union, two by the Spinning Weaving and Dyeing Workers General Union and one by the Painters General Union. Fourteen persons including one woman were arrested at four of the eight premises. A small quantity of objects of an offensive nature was also seized.
Sir D. Trench Governor visited yesterday, for second day after his return to Hong Kong, Government establishments and private enterprise.
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