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1/ NOV 1967
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En Clair W
IMMEDIATE HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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1696 16 November 1967
623 Hw
(D.T.D.)
UNCLASSIFIED
1664,
Situation Report for period 081200 to 160800. My telegram
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Bomb incidents fluctuated somewhat during the week as follows:-
Day
Reports
8/9
77
9/10
61
10/11
83
11/12
55
12/13
45
13/14
59
14/15
88
15/16
66
True
Hoax
46917~
58
38
11
34
27
2
39
21 15
56
43
Wednesday 8th November:
In Kowloon at 1900 the auxiliary crew of a police patrol car arrested two bomb planters. A hostile crowd surrounded them and threw a bomb which exploded. One bomb planter attempted to escape and was shot dead. One member of the crowd was killed by the bomb, and all eight of the police party and 34 passers-by were injured; one young girl subsequently died in hospital and a boy lost an eye.
Thursday 9th November .
At 1000 Cheung Chi Man, the man injured on a minefield on the 11th October, crossed the border at Lowu accompanied by China Travel Services officials who rejected the services of an ambulance and insisted on Cheung taking the train. There were no incidents accompanying this return. At 1750 a true bomb was found outside the Sha Tau Kok police post, and stones and bottles were thrown at the military demolition team. In the evening the police launched an operation to clean up the Wanchai area where many bomb incidents have taken place. 21 premises were raided but nothing incriminating was found, and no arrests were made.
Friday 10th November.
A number of hoax bombs were found near Government buildings at 0640 in Kowloon plain clothes police chased two hoax bomb planters, one of whom was shot and arrested. In Hong Kong two Communist middle school students were arrested. for possessing inflammatory posters and uttering inflammatory speeches. There was a minor demonstration in Kowloon. At Sai Kung in the New Territories a grenade was thrown at a bomb disposal party, but did not explode. There were a number of hoax bombs and some stone throwing at Sha Tau Kok.
Saturday 11th November
Early in the day, a suspected bomb planter was arrested in a
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