En Clair
IMMEDIATE HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
Ino 1528
UNCLASSIFIED
14 October, 1967
Addressed to C.0. telegram No. 1528 of 14 October, Repeated for information to:
POLAD Singapore Canberra.
Sitrep for period 110800 to 141200.
Is
My telegram No. 1516.
Washington
There has been a substantial increase in bomb reports and a
number of incidents in the urban areas and the border.
2. On 11 and 12 October, there were 28 and 35 reported bombs of which one and four were genuine. From 130800 to 141200 there were 359 bomb reports of which 73 were genuine. Explosions resulted in the death of one police officer and one civilian. Nine police officers, two military personnel and 30 civilians have been injured.
3. One incident occurred at 131935 hours in the Wanchai district, when a bomb thrown at a police patrol car landed on a tram, injuring two eleven people, one of whom died later. Following this incident, military members of a bomb disposal escort were slightly injured by a bomb thrown from a building. At 132100 hours, a police constable was killed by a powerful explosion while cordoning off an area on the Hong Kong waterfront.
2. At 131645 hours in the Kowloon Yaumati area a bomb thrown by a man in a crowd injured a police inspector and ten civilians. The man was arrested and will be charged with attempted murder. Later at 1915 hours another crowd in Sham Shui Po with banners and leaflets planted bombs and seven bomb planters were arrested, two after being injured by police fire. At 2015 hours a bomb thrown at a police landrover bounced off and exploded, injuring six passers-by.
5. On 11 October, an incident occurred at Man Kam To when a man visiting a grave for the Chung Yeung festival crawled through barbed wire surrounding an army post and sustained serious injury from a mine (my telegram No. 1515 (not to all) refers). The man has not yet been released by the Chinese authorities. This incident was given
prominent coverage in the local Communist Press.
6.
On the same day, a Ta Kwu Ling villager, resident of Lo Fong village until 1955, was kidnapped and dragged across the border by four Chinese farmers who till fields in British territory.
7. On 12 October at Pak Hok Chau (West of Lok Ma Chau police station) a party of men crossed the Shum Chun river and after searching huts, captured an illegal immigrant, and took him back to Chinese territory. Four members of the party, who continued to search the area, were arrested and detained. They claimed to be fishermen. small groups then crossed the river to demand the release of the four detained but after a period during which a minor scuffle occurred, they returned to China. The four men arrested are still in detention.
Charges are being considered.
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