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TELNO. 1537
IMMEDIATE HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
17 OCTOBER 1967
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ADDRESSED C.0. 1537 REPEATED POLAD SINGAPORE, WASHINGTON AND CANBERRA
SI TREP FOR PERIOD 140800 TO 170800.
MY TELEGRAM 1528.
558
RECEIVED IN
16 6CF1967
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THE SPATE OF DEMONSTRATIONS AND BOMB' PLANTING ASSOLATED WITH LORD SHEPHERD'S VISIT CONTINUED WITH 677 REPORTS AND 163. TRUE DOMBS DURING THE THREE DAYS UNDER REVIEW.
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2. BETWEEN 140500 AND 150500 THERE WERE 202 BOMB REPORTS OF WHICH 46 WERE GENUINE. IN HONG KONG AT 141200 FOUR SUSPECTED BOMBS WERE FOUND OUTSIDE THE WANCHAI PUBLIC MARKET. WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, A BOMB WAS THROWN INJURING TWO INSPECTORS AND 16 CIVILIANS. SHOTS WERE FIRED AT THE BOMB THROWERS ON A ROOF, BUT WITH NO RESULT.
3. IN KOWLOON AT 140920 AN RAOC N.C.0.
SUSTAINED SERIOUS
INJURIES TO LEFT HAND WHEN BOMB HE WAS INVESTIGATING EXPLODED. AT 141300 A POLICE INSPECTOR AND ONE POLICEMAN SLIGHTLY INJURED· · WHEN A BOMB BEING DEALT WITH EXPLODED.
AT MAN KAM TO ROAD BRIDGE, A SENIOR INSPECTOR OF POLICE WAS ABDUCTED SEE MY TELEGRAM 1530.
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5. BETWEEN 150500 AND 160500, THERE WERE 282 BOMB REPORTS, OF WHICH 73 WERE GENUINE. SOME OF THESE BOMBS WERE MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN PREVIOUSLY, AND THERE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO DISPERSE THE EFFORTS OF THE BOMB DISPOSAL TEAM
YOS IN CENTRAL KOWLOON.
BY PUTTING DOWN DEVICES IN CLEAR WATER 'BAY ROAD TO THE EAST OF KOWLOON, AND THEN LAYING MORE
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