En Clair
HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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UNCLASSIFIED
(D.T.D.)
27 September, 1967
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Press.
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RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63 28 SEP196,
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Sitrep One.
Hong Kong had another quiet and bomb free day today Wednesday. Not a single bomb was found in colony between midnight last night and ten p.m. today.
Day went by without incident but this evening police carried out a series of searches on suspicious premises in various parts of Kowloon and Hong Kong.
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A total of nine premises - seven of them union premises raided and a number of documents and inflammatory posters seized. Ten people were arrested.
Two fifteen year old youths were arrested this afternoon by police in Tsuen Wan in New Territories for placing false bombs and early this morning two other youths were arrested in Shatin in New Territories for putting up posters.
English language newspaper South China Morning Post in editorial this morning came out strongly against some American and Japanese newspapers for publishing sensational "scare" headlines about recent disturbances in Hong Kong.
"Most of damage was perpetrated by overzealous sub-editors with no real idea of what was happening" it said.
Continuing editorial said "so far it seems our export trade has not been seriously affected but damage may only become apparent later in year".
Editorial stressed need for a concentrated advertising campaign in overseas newspapers and television quoting visitors and businessmen saying just what conditions are like in Hong Kong.
Sitrep Two.
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"We need overseas importers to say that our factories are still turning out goods to same high specifications and on time and we need industrialists to say that they still think Hong Kong a place worth starting up in. Local investment may well be key to revival in overseas confidence; somehow this must be stimulated. We cannot just sit and wait. There is no use deluding ourselves; many overseas
We cannot people are worried and that could mean lost business. afford to lose even a dollars worth". Editorial concluded.
Mister George Curran Vice President Far East for Bank of America who's now visiting colony told English language newspaper Star today that few harmful long range effects can be expected in Hong Kong's trade with America because of recent troubles.
"American firms in colony have a great deal of confidence in Hong Kong" he said. "None of major firms here were at all alarmed"
he added.
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